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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many people at the Post are issued with subpoenas?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

3. What is strange about Deep Throat’s meeting with Woodward in Chapter 13?
(a) He doesn’t show up.
(b) They meet at a bar.
(c) It is longer than usual.
(d) Woodward stands his source up.

4. What are Bernstein and Woodward unable to substantiate in Chapter 14?
(a) Hunt’s involvement in Watergate.
(b) Magruder and Dean’s involvement in Watergate.
(c) Liddy’s involvement in Watergate.
(d) Nixon’s involvement in Watergate.

5. What upsets the reporters about Nixon’s announcement regarding executive privilege in Chapter 14?
(a) It confuses the public.
(b) It changes the facts of their article.
(c) It makes Nixon look bad.
(d) It is all for show.

6. What do Gray’s notes prove?
(a) Mitchell’s involvement in the cover-up.
(b) Dean’s involvement with Watergate.
(c) Segretti’s link to the White House.
(d) Nixon’s involvement with secret tapes.

7. What do Gray’s notes do to the Post?
(a) Vindicate it.
(b) Send its publisher to jail.
(c) Confuse its reporters.
(d) Prove its sources wrong.

8. Who confirms the infiltration from question #126?
(a) George Gorton.
(b) Ziegler.
(c) Deep Throat.
(d) The student himself.

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

10. 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.

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

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

13. Why does Deep Throat tell Woodward that he would warn him off a bad story?
(a) For the integrity of the press.
(b) Out of an ethical duty.
(c) Because they are friends.
(d) To protect his own job.

14. Who unexpectedly helps the prosecution at the end of Chapter 14?
(a) Colson.
(b) Hunt.
(c) Magruder.
(d) Liddy.

15. What was Mitchell’s former position?
(a) Attorney General.
(b) Head of CRP.
(c) Secretary of State.
(d) Chief of Staff to the President.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unusual about McCord?

2. What is strange about L. Patrick Gray’s position?

3. What mistake does the FBI contact make on the phone in Chapter 9?

4. What does Segretti claim he did for CRP?

5. How does McCord contact the judge?

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