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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique do the reporters use to have their fourth source confirm their story ?
(a) Using initials.
(b) Counting down from ten.
(c) Morse code.
(d) A flag on the balcony.

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

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

4. What happens when Woodward requests an interview with the President?
(a) He is unconditionally offered the interview.
(b) He is given a pre-interview and later denied.
(c) He is immediately denied.
(d) He is granted the interview, but postponed.

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

10. What does Bradlee’s statement in Chapter 9 announce?
(a) That the reporters are on probation.
(b) That the paper has fired the reporters.
(c) That the paper stands by its reporters.
(d) That certain facts from the Watergate stories have been recanted.

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

12. What does the unexpected testimony in question #147 give the prosecution?
(a) Evidence against Dean and Mitchell.
(b) Evidence against Nixon.
(c) Evidence against Hunt.
(d) Evidence against Liddy.

13. How do the reporters later feel about their reaction to the FBI agent?
(a) Terrible.
(b) Proud.
(c) Good.
(d) Indifferent.

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

15. What group did the George Washington University student infiltrate?
(a) The McGovern campaign.
(b) The Quakers.
(c) The Hippies.
(d) The CRP.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why don’t the reporters publish the Colson/Mitchell article?

2. What does Deep Throat do to Woodward in Chapter 9?

3. What is Senator Ervin’s opinion of Nixon’s men?

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

5. Where does Bernstein finally receive his subpoena?

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