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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. Who is the reporter’s fourth source about Haldeman’s access to the fund?
(a) Deep Throat.
(b) An FBI agent.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) Sloan.

2. What does Sloan refuse to confirm?
(a) That Haldeman had access to the fund.
(b) Any of his previous statements.
(c) His own access to the fund.
(d) The story as written.

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

4. Why do Woodward and Bernstein attend a dinner at the White House?
(a) To interview the President.
(b) To talk to the new attorney general.
(c) To receive awards.
(d) To help Bradlee.

5. With whom do the reporters dine in Chapter 14?
(a) A Time magazine reporter.
(b) A New York Times reporter.
(c) A Newsweek reporter.
(d) Deep Throat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Woodward requests an interview with the President?

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

3. In what format does Bernstein get the names of the Watergate trial jurors?

4. What do Woodward and Bernstein later regret about their coverage of Segretti?

5. Who is the reporter’s third source about Haldeman’s access to the fund?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why are the documents Gray provides significant?

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

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

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

6. What do the reporters suspect happened to the slush funds after June 17th?

7. Why do the reporters consider Gray’s appointment ill-timed?

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

9. What is Haldeman's main mode of operation, according to the reporters?

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

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