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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Herbert Kalmbach?
(a) CRP’s lawyer.
(b) Nixon’s personal lawyer.
(c) A lawyer approached by CRP.
(d) A lawyer for the White House.

2. How do most people on the reporters’ lists react to being contacted?
(a) They are furious.
(b) They are cooperative.
(c) They are concerned.
(d) They are terrified.

3. What is Hunt’s position?
(a) Politician.
(b) Late thirties.
(c) Attorney.
(d) Consultant.

4. In what media outlet does Ehrlichman make his denial?
(a) On television.
(b) In print.
(c) On the radio.
(d) In a press release.

5. What is the pizza that Ziegler references?
(a) Code to warn off the reporters.
(b) One of the pranks played on the McGovern campaign.
(c) A factual error that the reporters made.
(d) A mis-quoted source that the reporters used.

6. According to Deep Throat’s first statement, how many people connected to the President worked on subverting other elections?
(a) Five.
(b) Fifty.
(c) More than fifty.
(d) Fewer than ten.

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

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

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

10. How does Bernstein confirm the information that Sloan gave him?
(a) Through Woodward.
(b) Through a contact at the Justice Department.
(c) Through a contact in the FBI.
(d) Through Deep Throat.

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

12. At the beginning of the book, how long had Woodward been working at the Post?
(a) One year.
(b) Nine weeks.
(c) Nine months.
(d) Three months.

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

14. Where did Bernstein receive his college diploma?
(a) He didn’t.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Community college.
(d) Yale.

15. Where did Woodward receive his college diploma?
(a) Community college.
(b) Harvard.
(c) He didn’t.
(d) Yale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the White House hope to get from the Post?

2. How does the Bookkeeper identify the recipients of money from the security fund?

3. What action of his own does Bernstein question in Chapter 5?

4. What was Dahlberg’s position in CRP?

5. How long was the final Woodward/Bernstein article about espionage and sabotage?

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