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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. What mistake does the FBI contact make on the phone in Chapter 9?
(a) He confuses the names of two aides.
(b) He admits that he told his boss he is informing the reporters.
(c) He confuses Haldeman’s first name.
(d) He confuses Haldeman’s last name.

5. What is one document from Hunt’s safe that was destroyed?
(a) Fabricated evidence about JFK and a foreign assassination.
(b) Memos about Watergate.
(c) Nixon’s secret tape records.
(d) Wire tap records.

6. What is Segretti’s demeanor during his interview with the reporters?
(a) Confused.
(b) Persecuted.
(c) Upset.
(d) Calm.

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

8. What do the reporters wonder about Haldeman in Chapter 9?
(a) If he will resign.
(b) If they can interview him.
(c) If he is the fifth person with access to the fund.
(d) If he directed all of the corruption.

9. Why do the reporters use the technique in #87 ?
(a) To protect the source’s job.
(b) To protect the source’s identity.
(c) To confuse the source.
(d) To make the source more willing to talk.

10. In what format does Bernstein get the names of the Watergate trial jurors?
(a) He memorizes them.
(b) He writes them down.
(c) He photocopies them.
(d) He has them faxed over.

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

12. How does Dean feel about going to jail, according to his friend?
(a) He is relieved to go.
(b) He is resigned to it.
(c) He wants to avoid it more than anything.
(d) He will fight it.

13. Who writes the first part of the article about the unexpected witness at the end of Chapter 14?
(a) Woodward.
(b) Meyer.
(c) Bernstein.
(d) Bradlee.

14. What are the legal consequences for the reporters of having contacted jury members?
(a) They are acquitted.
(b) They are imprisoned.
(c) There are no consequences.
(d) They are indicted.

15. What is the nickname for the men on trial?
(a) The Men from Miami.
(b) The Watergate Seven.
(c) The Watergate Five.
(d) The Cubans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Colson deny in Chapter 15?

2. How do the reporters later feel about their reaction to the FBI agent?

3. What statement about the President most upsets his aide at the end of Chapter 15?

4. Who confirms the infiltration from question #126?

5. How much money would Nixon have devoted to the Post take-down?

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