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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Bookkeeper identify the recipients of money from the security fund?

2. What does Bradlee not ask Woodward for at lunch?

3. What was Dahlberg’s position in CRP?

4. What were the Watergate burglars carrying?

5. What was strange about John Mitchell’s resignation from office?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Woodward want to talk to Mitchell's wife?

2. What does the Bookkeeper help Bernstein link?

3. Why is Ken Clawson an important figure?

4. What kind of denials does the White House issue?

5. Why do they combine their articles?

6. How are Woodward and Bernstein different?

7. Why is Donald Segretti important?

8. Which campaigns did CRP focus on sabotaging?

9. What characterizes Ziegler's response to the allegations?

10. What is different about the GAO investigation than previous investigations?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one major figure in the Watergate scandal. What did he go on to do afterwards? How was his career shaped by his involvement in this scandal?

Essay Topic 2

Nixon’s men are described as having corrupted other campaigns. Which campaigns, and why? Whom did they consider to be enemies? How did CRP go about trying to take down these enemies?

Essay Topic 3

Nixon was the first president to have been impeached for over a hundred years. Describe this process. Why did he ultimately have to resign?

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