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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Ziegler try to avoid during the press conference in Chapter 8?
(a) Corruption.
(b) The Post.
(c) Involved.
(d) Directed.

2. What number does Deep Throat amend his response to #57 to?
(a) Fewer than ten.
(b) More than fifty.
(c) Five.
(d) Fifty.

3. How does Mrs. Mitchell act when Woodward approaches her?
(a) Angrily.
(b) He doesn’t reach her.
(c) Calmly.
(d) Eccentrically.

4. How old were Woodward and Bernstein at the time of the Watergate break-ins?
(a) Late twenties.
(b) Early thirties.
(c) Late thirties.
(d) Early twenties.

5. What is Chapin’s role at the White House, according to the reporters’ inside contact there?
(a) He is in the press office.
(b) He is unimportant.
(c) He is one of the most important people there.
(d) He has the President’s ear.

6. What regarding Sloan makes Bernstein panic in Chapter 5?
(a) The suspicion that he may not have the facts.
(b) Learning that he never worked for CRP.
(c) His disappearance.
(d) His new attitude.

7. Whose name comes up in a variety of sources?
(a) Gordon Liddy.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) George McGovern.
(d) Sally Harmony.

8. Who from CRP directly responded to the Watergate articles?
(a) Paul Barrick.
(b) The Bookkeepers.
(c) Maurice Stans.
(d) John Mitchell.

9. How many men agents did the FBI assign to the Watergate investigation?
(a) One hundred.
(b) One.
(c) A dozen.
(d) One hundred and fifty.

10. What is unique about the sandwich shop where Bernstein meets his source?
(a) Democrats often meet there.
(b) It is a noted Nixon-staffer hangout.
(c) Nobody knows about it.
(d) It is next door to the Post.

11. What is Rosenfeld’s job at the paper?
(a) He is a diplomatic correspondent.
(b) He is a reporter.
(c) He is the City editor.
(d) He is the Metro editor.

12. What is CRP?
(a) Committee for Republican Power.
(b) Creative Republican Powerhouse .
(c) Committee to Reelect the President.
(d) Constitutional Rights Protection.

13. What was the first link between the burglars and the White House?
(a) The address books.
(b) The lawyers.
(c) An anonymous source.
(d) McCord.

14. What excuse does Bernstein use to stay in the Bookkeeper’s house?
(a) He drinks a cup of coffee.
(b) He uses her telephone.
(c) He convinces her to go on the record.
(d) He tells her he is being followed.

15. What code name does Bernstein use for the Bookkeeper?
(a) “My friend.”
(b) Deep Throat.
(c) X.
(d) Z.

Short Answer Questions

1. What setback had the Post encountered in 1971?

2. What had Bernstein planned on doing instead of the Watergate story?

3. What is Ziegler’s role at the White House?

4. What does Sloan tell the reporters about the money in Chapter 8?

5. How does Bernstein confirm the information that Sloan gave him?

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