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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one institution that is NOT mentioned as a CRP target in Chapter 16?
(a) The Brookings Institute.
(b) The Time magazine offices.
(c) The Newsweek offices.
(d) The Post offices.

2. Who wins the presidential election?
(a) It is unclear.
(b) Nixon.
(c) Muskie.
(d) McGovern.

3. Whom does Woodward vote for in the presidential election?
(a) He does not vote.
(b) Nixon.
(c) McGovern.
(d) Muskie.

4. What is the code name of Bernstein’s new source?
(a) Deeper Throat.
(b) Anonymous.
(c) Z.
(d) My Friend.

5. What is the informal name of the group that included Hunt, Liddy, Young, and Krough?
(a) The Plumbers.
(b) The Carpenters.
(c) The Lifeguards.
(d) The Electricians.

6. Why do Woodward and Bernstein attend a dinner at the White House?
(a) To talk to the new attorney general.
(b) To help Bradlee.
(c) To interview the President.
(d) To receive awards.

7. How does McCord contact the judge?
(a) By fax.
(b) In person.
(c) By telephone.
(d) By letter.

8. What happens to Dean in Chapter 16?
(a) He keeps his job.
(b) He gives interviews to the press.
(c) He is fired.
(d) He resigns.

9. Who does Woodward think might be tapping his apartment?
(a) CRP.
(b) The White House.
(c) The FBI.
(d) The CIA.

10. What happens with the CRP’s subpoenas in Chapter 13?
(a) They are thrown out of court.
(b) They require the recipients to go to court.
(c) They are seriously questioned by legal scholars.
(d) They are upheld as constitutional.

11. What is Senator Ervin’s opinion of Nixon’s men?
(a) They are misinformed.
(b) They are thugs.
(c) They are fundamentally good.
(d) They are confused.

12. What does Deep Throat refuse to do for Woodward in Chapter 9?
(a) He refuses to be his source about Haldeman.
(b) He refuses to talk about Watergate anymore.
(c) He refuses to talk to him anymore.
(d) He refuses to be his source about Nixon.

13. What is strange about L. Patrick Gray’s position?
(a) He refuses the job.
(b) He is named in the middle of the Watergate crisis.
(c) He has resigned.
(d) He is about to be fired.

14. What does Woodward think Graham is trying to tell him?
(a) That the reporters need to be careful in the future.
(b) That she thinks he has invented sources.
(c) That she loves their coverage of Watergate.
(d) That she needs them to stop covering the story.

15. What is the second document from Hunt’s safe that was destroyed?
(a) Background information on Ted Kennedy.
(b) Background information on JFK.
(c) Background information on Nixon.
(d) Background information on the Post.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Deep Throat think that the statement referenced in #115 is obvious?

2. What are the legal consequences for the reporters of having contacted jury members?

3. How many jury members acted as sources for the reporters?

4. In what format does Bernstein get the names of the Watergate trial jurors?

5. What does Deep Throat claim that neither the FBI nor the Post will be able to prove?

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