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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had Bernstein planned on doing instead of the Watergate story?
(a) He was going to take a long vacation.
(b) He was doing background research for Woodward.
(c) He was going to investigate CRP anyway.
(d) He planned on working on another story.

2. What does Sloan tell the reporters about the money in Chapter 8?
(a) He was lying about it.
(b) The money is all in one fund.
(c) They’ve closed down the fund.
(d) Only one person really controls the fund.

3. How does Bernstein get into the Bookkeeper’s house?
(a) He asks for a cigarette.
(b) He insists on entering.
(c) He breaks in.
(d) He is invited in.

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

5. What excuse does Bernstein use to stay in the Bookkeeper’s house?
(a) He convinces her to go on the record.
(b) He tells her he is being followed.
(c) He drinks a cup of coffee.
(d) He uses her telephone.

6. What action of his own does Bernstein question in Chapter 5?
(a) Annoying his contacts.
(b) Approaching Sloan in the first place.
(c) Sending Mrs. Sloan flowers.
(d) Using the Bookkeeper as a source.

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

8. How does the Bookkeeper identify the recipients of money from the security fund?
(a) She agrees to their last names.
(b) She provides their initials.
(c) She provides their last names.
(d) She agrees to their initials.

9. For whom does Howard Hunt work directly?
(a) Colson.
(b) Mitchell.
(c) Nixon.
(d) Dean.

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

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

12. How many men broke into the Watergate?
(a) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were the Watergate burglars carrying?

3. Whose name comes up in a variety of sources?

4. According to Deep Throat’s first statement, how many people connected to the President worked on subverting other elections?

5. How does Woodward find Mrs. Mitchell?

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