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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who issued the subpoenas?
(a) Howard Hunt.
(b) CRP.
(c) The White House.
(d) The Justice Department.

3. What percent of the vote did the winner of the presidential election receive?
(a) 49%.
(b) 51%.
(c) 56%.
(d) 61%.

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

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

6. How much money would Nixon have devoted to the Post take-down?
(a) None.
(b) Less than $1,000,000.
(c) Incidental funds.
(d) $5,000,000.

7. Where does Bernstein finally receive his subpoena?
(a) At home.
(b) At his desk.
(c) In the lobby.
(d) While visiting a friend.

8. According to Sloan, how much was paid out to the Watergate burglars?
(a) $100,000.
(b) $50,000.
(c) More than $80,000.
(d) At least $70,000.

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is L. Patrick Gray?

2. How does Dean’s friend refer to the major Watergate players?

3. What does the Senator want that Woodward can’t provide him?

4. What changes about Deep Throat’s attitude in Chapter 16?

5. What are the legal consequences for the reporters of having contacted jury members?

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