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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barr tell Coal when he is asked to bug Grantham's phone at the Post?

2. Why was Grantham racing down Rhode Island St. at fifty miles per hour?

3. Where should Shaw have been instead of in New York researching lawyers?

4. After Shaw leaves New Orleans, where does the CIA lose her trail?

5. What has happened to Louisiana's brown pelicans?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Shaw learn that Curtis Morgan/Garcia is dead?

2. What was in the envelope Shaw found in Morgan's lockbox?

3. Why hasn't Grantham's apartment been bugged?

4. Why is the pelican brief a possible liability for the President?

5. Why does Gminski tell the President that the author of the pelican brief should become a novelist?

6. How did Shaw get away from Stump?

7. Describe Mattiece's plan to make money in Louisiana's oil fields and how this plan has been thwarted.

8. Why does Shaw gets angry when Grantham talks to her about being careful?

9. Describe what happens when Grantham follows a man he believes to be Garcia into the offices of Brim, Stearns, and Kidlow?

10. Who does Shaw see as she watches mourners arrive for Callahan's memorial service?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the knowledge that Shaw and Garcia had regarding the Rosenberg and Jensen murders. Also discuss how they obtained their information.

Essay Topic 2

Although Justices Rosenberg and Jensen were very different individuals, both were murdered by the same man. Compare and contrast Rosenberg and Jensen.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the pelican brief, its contents, and how it helped to solve the murders of Rosenberg and Jensen.

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