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

2. How much does the Times report was in the fund?
(a) $50,000.
(b) $900,000.
(c) $9,000,000.
(d) $700,000.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is L. Patrick Gray?

3. What does Bernstein not understand at first about the legal ramifications of the President’s involvement?

4. What does Butterfield reveal in Chapter 16?

5. What upsets the reporters about Nixon’s announcement regarding executive privilege in Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

1. What characterizes Hunt's friend, whom Woodward lunches with?

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

3. Why are the reporters relieved about Judge Sirica's handling of their approaching jurors?

4. Why does CRP try to recruit university students?

5. What does Bernstein instruct Bradlee to do on the phone?

6. Was it illegal for the reporters to approach jurors?

7. How does the White House aide feel about Dean’s upcoming statement regarding the President?

8. What is Judge Sirica's attitude towards the testimony at the trial he is running?

9. Given Bernstein's voting - in the election and the poll - what does he think of McGovern?

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

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