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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Dean’s attitude towards the Post coverage of Watergate?
(a) He was annoyed by it.
(b) He respected it.
(c) He was infuriated by it.
(d) He loved it.

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

3. Why doesn’t Woodward initially receive his subpoena?
(a) Someone else pretended to be him.
(b) He avoids the server.
(c) He was not supposed to receive one.
(d) He was on vacation.

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

5. Why does Deep Throat think that the statement referenced in #115 is obvious?
(a) Because Gray was hired.
(b) Because Liddy and Hunt were hired.
(c) Because Sloan resigned.
(d) Because Mitchell resigned.

6. What does Haldeman deny in Chapter 15?
(a) That Dean was involved.
(b) That Mitchell was involved.
(c) That he will resign.
(d) That he was involved.

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

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

9. What is unusual about McCord?
(a) He is willing to talk to the Post.
(b) He did not take part in the Watergate break-in.
(c) He is lying.
(d) He is the only one of the burglars to turn on his superiors.

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

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

12. What does Bernstein not understand at first about the legal ramifications of the President’s involvement?
(a) The constitutional issues.
(b) The practical issues.
(c) The implications for the nation.
(d) The ethical issues.

13. What does Liddy remark during the trial?
(a) That they’re all just pawns.
(b) That they’ve just captured the queen.
(c) That the King will save them.
(d) That the lawyers have put the men on trial in checkmate.

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

15. Are Woodward and Bernstein allowed to talk to witnesses at the trial?
(a) Initially yes, but they are later forbidden to.
(b) Never.
(c) Initially no, but they are later allowed to.
(d) They have to take it on a case-by-case basis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bernstein want to confirm in Chapter 14?

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

3. Whom does Bernstein think will win the presidential election?

4. How does the FBI agent react when asked to re-confirm the story?

5. According to Sloan, how much was paid out to the Watergate burglars?

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