2 and 3.

(a) Voyles says that the two men are dead because

...

(b) Darby Shaw wants to become ...

(c) She thinks the two judges were killed because ...

(d) Thomas Callahan and Gavin Verheek have a lot

in common because ...

(e Darby feels disappointed when she sees the files

because ...

(a) Why is the news of the murders good news for

the President?

(b) Why do the Ku Klux Klan want judges like

Rosenberg dead?

(c) Why does Voyles think that the rich individuals are not really suspects?

1 Read this paragraph about what happens in Chapters 4 and 5. Choose the correct phrases in italics.

Thomas went to see Darby after four days and she gave him/threw away a copy of her theory. Shethought it was very valuable/worthless. Thomas

showed it to the President/someone in the FBI. Gray Grantham is a reporter/cleaner on the Washington Post. He had a phone call from a judge/lawyer who said he knew something about the killings of Rosenberg and Jensen. He was frightened and gave

Grantham his name/a false name. The FBI realized that the killer was Khamel, which meant that someone had waited a long time/paid a lot of money for the murders. The FBI also had a copy of the Pelican Brief

- a book about birds/the document that Darby Shaw had written.

What does this mean? What does it tell us about the President?

1 Match the beginning and ending of these sentences.

(a) If Thomas hadn’t drunk so much in the

restaurant,

(b) If they hadn’t had an argument,

(c) If Darby had been in the car,

(d) If Thomas hadn’t given the Pelican Brief to Gavin,

(i) she would have died too.

(ii) he and Darby wouldn’t have had an argument.

(iii) there wouldn’t have been a bomb in the car.

(iv) Darby would have been in the car with Thomas.

Write the name of the correct person next to the description below.

Darby Shaw, Thomas Callahan, Gray Grantham, Khamel, Denton Voyles, Garcia, Fletcher Coal, Rosenberg and Jensen

(a) These two people are Supreme Court judges who are murdered.

(b) This person is the murderer of the two judges.

(c) This person works for the President of the United States.

(d) This person is the head of the FBI.

(e) This person is a young law student, who wrote the Pelican Brief.

(f) This person is a law teacher who dies in a car explosion.

(g) This person is a reporter on an important newspaper.

(h) This person is a lawyer who thinks he has some information about the murders of the Supreme Court judges.

(a) What do we know so far about the Pelican Brief?

(b) How do we know that it’s an important theory?

(c) How do you think Darby is feeling at the end of

Chapter 6?

(d) Gray Grantham is an important character in the

story? How do you think he becomes important?