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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What upsets the reporters about Nixon’s announcement regarding executive privilege in Chapter 14?
(a) It confuses the public.
(b) It is all for show.
(c) It makes Nixon look bad.
(d) It changes the facts of their article.

2. How much money would Nixon have devoted to the Post take-down?
(a) Incidental funds.
(b) $5,000,000.
(c) Less than $1,000,000.
(d) None.

3. What does the Senator want that Woodward can’t provide him?
(a) Information about his next article.
(b) Testimony at the inquiry.
(c) Evidence about Colson.
(d) The names of his sources.

4. What are the legal consequences for the reporters of having contacted jury members?
(a) There are no consequences.
(b) They are acquitted.
(c) They are indicted.
(d) They are imprisoned.

5. How does Sloan resemble Deep Throat in Chapter 9?
(a) He refuses to talk to the reporters anymore.
(b) He refuses to be their source on Haldeman.
(c) He meets with the reporters in an underground garage.
(d) He yells at Woodward.

6. What does Woodward ask for from Shapiro and Colson?
(a) Memos about the Canuck letter.
(b) Memos about Hunt’s safe.
(c) Memos from Hunt’s safe.
(d) Transcripts of Nixon’s tapes.

7. What is the code name of Bernstein’s new source?
(a) Deeper Throat.
(b) My Friend.
(c) Anonymous.
(d) Z.

8. What group did the George Washington University student infiltrate?
(a) The Quakers.
(b) The McGovern campaign.
(c) The Hippies.
(d) The CRP.

9. Who writes the first part of the article about the unexpected witness at the end of Chapter 14?
(a) Woodward.
(b) Bradlee.
(c) Bernstein.
(d) Meyer.

10. What is the second document from Hunt’s safe that was destroyed?
(a) Background information on Ted Kennedy.
(b) Background information on JFK.
(c) Background information on Nixon.
(d) Background information on the Post.

11. Why doesn’t Woodward initially receive his subpoena?
(a) He was on vacation.
(b) He was not supposed to receive one.
(c) He avoids the server.
(d) Someone else pretended to be him.

12. What do Gray’s notes do to the Post?
(a) Confuse its reporters.
(b) Prove its sources wrong.
(c) Vindicate it.
(d) Send its publisher to jail.

13. What does Deep Throat do to Woodward in Chapter 9?
(a) He stands him up.
(b) He has questions for him.
(c) He refuses to see him.
(d) He praises his work.

14. What percent of the vote did the winner of the presidential election receive?
(a) 51%.
(b) 56%.
(c) 49%.
(d) 61%.

15. What does Woodward think Graham is trying to tell him?
(a) That the reporters need to be careful in the future.
(b) That she thinks he has invented sources.
(c) That she loves their coverage of Watergate.
(d) That she needs them to stop covering the story.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Deep Throat, what is the current attitude at the White House?

2. What grade does Bradlee initially give Woodward’s story about Butterfield?

3. What does Bernstein not understand at first about the legal ramifications of the President’s involvement?

4. Who confirms the infiltration from question #126?

5. What statement about the President most upsets his aide at the end of Chapter 15?

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