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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Deep Throat claim that neither the FBI nor the Post will be able to prove?
(a) The guilt of the men on trial for the Watergate break-in.
(b) That Hunt burned his manuscripts.
(c) That Richard Nixon knew about the break-in.
(d) That Mitchell and Colson were also conspirators in Watergate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the Post’s story claim the President was informed about the cover-up?

2. Who is Ed Warren?

3. Whom does Woodward vote for in the presidential election?

4. How much does the Times report was in the fund?

5. What does Sloan’s attorney say about Sloan’s denial?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Kissinger angry at Woodward?

2. Why does Woodward’s CRP source change in Chapter 14?

3. How does the book describe Haldeman's relationship to CRP?

4. What is notable about the process server who finally finds Bernstein?

5. What do the reporters believe about Segretti?

6. Why would the President want to ‘destroy’ the Post?

7. What is the significance of the President’s ‘whitewash’ comment?

8. Why are the documents Gray provides significant?

9. What does the Post do to try to avoid surveillance?

10. What did the FBI fail to do with the Watergate Seven's address books?

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