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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the FBI agent react when asked to re-confirm the story?
(a) He pretends not to know the reporters.
(b) He denies the facts.
(c) He presents new facts.
(d) He complies.

3. With whom do the reporters dine in Chapter 14?
(a) A Time magazine reporter.
(b) Deep Throat.
(c) A Newsweek reporter.
(d) A New York Times reporter.

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

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

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

7. According to Sloan, how much was paid out to the Watergate burglars?
(a) $100,000.
(b) At least $70,000.
(c) More than $80,000.
(d) $50,000.

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

9. How many jury members acted as sources for the reporters?
(a) Six.
(b) All of them.
(c) One.
(d) None.

10. Why do the reporters use the technique in #87 ?
(a) To make the source more willing to talk.
(b) To protect the source’s identity.
(c) To protect the source’s job.
(d) To confuse the source.

11. What does Haldeman deny in Chapter 15?
(a) That he will resign.
(b) That Mitchell was involved.
(c) That he was involved.
(d) That Dean was involved.

12. What is the tone of Dean’s statement at the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) Angry and confused.
(b) Evasive and anxious.
(c) Pleasant and calm.
(d) Threatening and defiant.

13. What is the informal name of the group that included Hunt, Liddy, Young, and Krough?
(a) The Carpenters.
(b) The Lifeguards.
(c) The Plumbers.
(d) The Electricians.

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

15. What happens when Woodward requests an interview with the President?
(a) He is granted the interview, but postponed.
(b) He is immediately denied.
(c) He is given a pre-interview and later denied.
(d) He is unconditionally offered the interview.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Haldeman and Ehrlichman in Chapter 16?

2. What is strange about Deep Throat’s meeting with Woodward in Chapter 13?

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

4. Why does Deep Throat tell Woodward that he would warn him off a bad story?

5. Why does Deep Throat think that the statement referenced in #115 is obvious?

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