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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. Who is Young?
(a) A reporter.
(b) An editor.
(c) A politician.
(d) A lawyer.

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

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

7. What is the colloquial term that CRP used for its subterfuge tactics?
(a) Black Ops.
(b) Motherfucking.
(c) Ratfucking.
(d) Necessary Evils.

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

9. What is the term that Deep Throat uses to describe CRP’s subterfuge tactics?
(a) Black Ops.
(b) Games.
(c) Necessary Evils.
(d) Ratfucking.

10. Why does Rosenfeld initially distrust Young?
(a) He’s never heard of him.
(b) He thinks he is a hippy.
(c) He thinks he is lying.
(d) He thinks he’s using a pseudonym.

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

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

13. What is Chapin’s job at the White House?
(a) He is an aide to the President.
(b) He works in the press office.
(c) He works in security.
(d) He is a speechwriter.

14. What is Sloan’s current job?
(a) He works for the White House.
(b) He works for CRP.
(c) He is unemployed.
(d) He is an independent consultant.

15. What setback had the Post encountered in 1971?
(a) Time Magazine got an interview with the President.
(b) It had gone bankrupt.
(c) The New York Times had published the Pentagon Papers.
(d) They were scooped on a story about a Vietnam general.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the first link between the burglars and the White House?

3. What does the young Post reporter use to see if Segretti is home?

4. In what year did the Watergate break-in take place?

5. What is the most important name connected with the fund that the reporters have found by Chapter 5?

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