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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do reporters at the newsroom tease Bernstein about during the investigation into CRP’s checks?
(a) His tendency to push deadlines.
(b) His level of Spanish.
(c) His last-minute revisions.
(d) His friendship with Woodward.

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

3. What were the Watergate burglars carrying?
(a) Bags of money.
(b) Budget memos.
(c) Tapes of confidential conversations.
(d) Photo equipment and electronic gear.

4. What story do the reporters publish in Chapter 7?
(a) Nixon resigns from office.
(b) White House denies sabotage stories.
(c) Nixon aide cleared of all charges.
(d) Nixon aide named as sabotage contact.

5. What does Bradlee warn the reporters to clean up?
(a) Their act.
(b) Their writing.
(c) Their personal lives.
(d) Their sources.

6. Whom does Bernstein call in Chapter 7?
(a) Undecided voters.
(b) Nixon supporters.
(c) Muskie supporters.
(d) McGovern supporters.

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

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

9. What nickname did the two reporters acquire at the Post?
(a) Woodstein.
(b) CarlBob.
(c) Bernwood.
(d) BobCarl.

10. What is Ziegler’s role at the White House?
(a) He is an economic advisor.
(b) He is the Press Secretary.
(c) He is the Chief of Staff.
(d) He is a speechwriter.

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

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

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

14. 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 mis-quoted source that the reporters used.
(d) A factual error that the reporters made.

15. What does the White House hope to get from the Post?
(a) The names of their sources.
(b) Woodward and Bernstein fired.
(c) Their publishing license.
(d) A retraction and apology.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what media outlet does Ehrlichman make his denial?

2. What did Dahlberg do with the money he was given?

3. What is unique about the sandwich shop where Bernstein meets his source?

4. What was Dahlberg’s position in CRP?

5. How does Howard Hunt respond to the story about the burglars’ connection to the White House?

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