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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Deep Throat provide for the reporters?
(a) Deep background.
(b) Rumors.
(c) A confirmation source.
(d) A primary source.

2. Where were the majority of the Watergate burglars from?
(a) New York.
(b) California.
(c) Washington D.C.
(d) Miami.

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

4. Who is Bill Mooney?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A CRP staffer.
(c) A White House staffer.
(d) A pseudonym.

5. What name does Sloan give to the fund?
(a) The Special Operations fund.
(b) The Special Projects fund.
(c) The Black Ops fund.
(d) The Ratfucking fund.

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

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

8. What does Young provide the reporters?
(a) An on-the-record source.
(b) Deep background.
(c) Confirmation of earlier facts.
(d) An off-the-record source.

9. What is the most important name connected with the fund that the reporters have found by Chapter 5?
(a) Haldeman.
(b) Mitchell.
(c) Stans.
(d) Liddy.

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

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

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 thinks he is making up stories.
(d) He is a Republican.

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

14. Who was Bernstein’s source that the book compares to Deep Throat?
(a) An ex-girlfriend.
(b) A jogging partner.
(c) A former staffer at the Post.
(d) The owner of a bike shop.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Woodward receive his college diploma?

3. What is Young’s connection to the White House?

4. How did Deep Throat set a meeting with Woodward?

5. What does Bradlee warn the reporters to clean up?

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