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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. Why is Coal alarmed in Chapter 34?

2. Where is Verheek to meet Shaw on Monday?

3. What happened to the man Shaw thought was Verheek?

4. In Chapter 27, who from the FBI and CIA meet with each other at Dupont Circle?

5. What two calls does Grantham receive early Saturday morning?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Grantham and Shaw talk to students who clerked at White and Blazevich last summer?

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

3. Lewis wondered how Verheek could go down for a simple funeral and end up dead. Explain how that happened.

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

5. Why does Horton want the Administration to investigate the pelican brief?

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

7. Why did Khamel agree once to kill Castro, but then did not go through with the job?

8. What connection does Grantham make after Shaw tells him about the pelican brief?

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

10. How is Shaw able to talk with Linney at the hospital?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Rosenberg's and Jensen's reasons for not wanting FBI agents in their homes.

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

Explain how Voyles is able to use information to keep the upper hand in his dealings with the President and with a senator who wants to investigate the FBI's protection of the justices.

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