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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who destroyed documents from Hunt’s safe?
(a) Hunt.
(b) Mitchell.
(c) Colson.
(d) Gray.

3. What grade does Bradlee initially give Woodward’s story about Butterfield?
(a) B-.
(b) B+.
(c) F.
(d) A.

4. Why does Deep Throat tell Woodward that he would warn him off a bad story?
(a) For the integrity of the press.
(b) Because they are friends.
(c) To protect his own job.
(d) Out of an ethical duty.

5. Who is Ed Warren?
(a) The manager of an upstate hotel in New York.
(b) Bernstein’s pseudonym.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) Hunt’s pseudonym.

6. What does the unexpected testimony in question #147 give the prosecution?
(a) Evidence against Liddy.
(b) Evidence against Dean and Mitchell.
(c) Evidence against Hunt.
(d) Evidence against Nixon.

7. Who is L. Patrick Gray?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A member of CRP.
(c) The head of the FBI.
(d) The head of the CIA.

8. Whom does Woodward vote for in the presidential election?
(a) McGovern.
(b) He does not vote.
(c) Nixon.
(d) Muskie.

9. What is the theory presented as to why the men on trial plead guilty?
(a) They don’t understand the legal system.
(b) They know they will be caught anyway.
(c) They anticipate a later pardon.
(d) They are remorseful.

10. What does Bradlee’s statement in Chapter 9 announce?
(a) That the paper stands by its reporters.
(b) That the reporters are on probation.
(c) That the paper has fired the reporters.
(d) That certain facts from the Watergate stories have been recanted.

11. What do Gray’s notes prove?
(a) Nixon’s involvement with secret tapes.
(b) Mitchell’s involvement in the cover-up.
(c) Segretti’s link to the White House.
(d) Dean’s involvement with Watergate.

12. What is strange about Deep Throat’s meeting with Woodward in Chapter 13?
(a) They meet at a bar.
(b) Woodward stands his source up.
(c) He doesn’t show up.
(d) It is longer than usual.

13. What does Deep Throat refuse to do for Woodward in Chapter 9?
(a) He refuses to talk about Watergate anymore.
(b) He refuses to be his source about Haldeman.
(c) He refuses to talk to him anymore.
(d) He refuses to be his source about Nixon.

14. How many people at the Post are issued with subpoenas?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

15. What does Liddy remark during the trial?
(a) That the King will save them.
(b) That they’ve just captured the queen.
(c) That the lawyers have put the men on trial in checkmate.
(d) That they’re all just pawns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Haldeman deny in Chapter 15?

2. What was Mitchell’s former position?

3. Who issued the subpoenas?

4. Where is Woodward when Bernstein gets his subpoena?

5. What is Segretti’s demeanor during his interview with the reporters?

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