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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When does the Post’s story claim the President was informed about the cover-up?
(a) March.
(b) February.
(c) January.
(d) December.

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

4. Who is Ed Warren?
(a) Hunt’s pseudonym.
(b) Bernstein’s pseudonym.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) The manager of an upstate hotel in New York.

5. What does Sloan’s attorney say about Sloan’s denial?
(a) That it is specific to this story.
(b) That he didn’t mean it.
(c) That he denies the denial.
(d) That he was right.

6. According to Deep Throat, what is the current attitude at the White House?
(a) Confused.
(b) Repentant.
(c) Desperate.
(d) Confident.

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

8. Why don’t the reporters publish the Colson/Mitchell article?
(a) Because they don’t both agree about it.
(b) Because they received last-minute evidence contradicting it.
(c) Because Bradlee asked them to take it out.
(d) Because the evidence is not convincing enough.

9. What does Sloan refuse to confirm?
(a) His own access to the fund.
(b) That Haldeman had access to the fund.
(c) The story as written.
(d) Any of his previous statements.

10. Who destroyed documents from Hunt’s safe?
(a) Gray.
(b) Hunt.
(c) Colson.
(d) Mitchell.

11. Whom does Kissinger contact at the Post when he is angry?
(a) Bernstein.
(b) Woodward.
(c) Graham.
(d) Bradlee.

12. What changes about Deep Throat’s attitude in Chapter 16?
(a) He is anxious.
(b) He is happy.
(c) He is confident.
(d) He is quiet.

13. What grade does Bradlee initially give Woodward’s story about Butterfield?
(a) B-.
(b) F.
(c) B+.
(d) A.

14. What does Bernstein want to confirm in Chapter 14?
(a) Liddy’s involvement in Watergate.
(b) Nixon’s involvement in Watergate.
(c) Hunt’s involvement in Watergate.
(d) Magruder and Dean’s involvement in Watergate.

15. What does Butterfield reveal in Chapter 16?
(a) Nixon paid to get out of going to jail.
(b) Nixon taped himself.
(c) Colson went off the tracks.
(d) He was the leader of CRP.

Short Answer Questions

1. Are Woodward and Bernstein allowed to talk to witnesses at the trial?

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

3. Whom does Bernstein vote for in the presidential election?

4. Why doesn’t Woodward initially receive his subpoena?

5. What is one institution that is NOT mentioned as a CRP target in Chapter 16?

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