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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What statement about the President most upsets his aide at the end of Chapter 15?
(a) That he is going to jail.
(b) That he is a liar.
(c) That Dean will claim he is a crook.
(d) That he will be impeached.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the subject of the reporters’ story in Chapter 5 respond to it?

2. In what format does Bernstein get the names of the Watergate trial jurors?

3. What setback had the Post encountered in 1971?

4. How does the New York Times make the connection between Segretti and Chapin?

5. What does the unexpected testimony in question #147 give the prosecution?

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