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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the nickname for young reporter?
(a) Ace.
(b) Buddy.
(c) Champ.
(d) Scout.

2. Why is Bernstein’s contact from #37 angry with him?
(a) He is a Republican.
(b) He wants to be left alone.
(c) He thinks he has been accessing confidential files.
(d) He thinks he is making up stories.

3. How does Howard Hunt respond to the story about the burglars’ connection to the White House?
(a) We’ll deny everything.
(b) Do your worst.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Good God!

4. What did Dahlberg do with the money he was given?
(a) He gave it to Hunt.
(b) He turned it over to the treasurer.
(c) He kept it.
(d) He sent it to Mexico.

5. How does Woodward find Mrs. Mitchell?
(a) He doesn’t find her.
(b) From the hotel’s switchboard.
(c) From the hotel’s front desk.
(d) By following her.

6. 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 has the President’s ear.
(c) He is unimportant.
(d) He is one of the most important people there.

7. What does Bradlee not ask Woodward for at lunch?
(a) His certainty that he is right.
(b) To make sure they proceed carefully.
(c) The names of his sources.
(d) Confirmation of the facts.

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

9. What is John Mitchell’s job?
(a) He is Nixon’s accountant.
(b) He is Nixon’s chief of staff.
(c) He is Nixon’s campaign manager.
(d) He is Nixon’s treasurer.

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

11. What was Dahlberg’s position in CRP?
(a) Midwest Secretary.
(b) Northwest Finance Chairman.
(c) Midwest Finance Chairman.
(d) Northwest Agent at Large.

12. How does Bernstein get into the Bookkeeper’s house?
(a) He breaks in.
(b) He is invited in.
(c) He asks for a cigarette.
(d) He insists on entering.

13. How often had Woodward and Bernstein worked together before Watergate?
(a) Often.
(b) Once.
(c) Several times.
(d) They hadn’t.

14. In what year did the Watergate break-in take place?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1962.

15. How did Deep Throat set a meeting with Woodward?
(a) Over the telephone.
(b) By setting up a red flag.
(c) Through his copy of the paper.
(d) By waiting on random nights in the garage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story do the reporters publish in Chapter 7?

2. What is Sloan’s current job?

3. Whom does Bernstein call in Chapter 7?

4. Whom does Moore first contact?

5. At the beginning of the book, how long had Woodward been working at the Post?

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