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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Young’s connection to the White House?
(a) He worked there.
(b) He is a major CRP fundraiser.
(c) He knows Chapin and Segretti.
(d) He is a friend of Nixon’s.

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

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

7. What regarding Sloan makes Bernstein panic in Chapter 5?
(a) The suspicion that he may not have the facts.
(b) His new attitude.
(c) His disappearance.
(d) Learning that he never worked for CRP.

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

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

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

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

12. How does Mrs. Mitchell act when Woodward approaches her?
(a) Eccentrically.
(b) Calmly.
(c) Angrily.
(d) He doesn’t reach her.

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

14. How long was the final Woodward/Bernstein article about espionage and sabotage?
(a) One paragraph.
(b) One page.
(c) Sixty-five paragraphs.
(d) Fifty paragraphs.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Deep Throat, where did the Canuck Letter originate?

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

4. What job had Ziegler previously held?

5. How do most people on the reporters’ lists react to being contacted?

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