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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. What action of his own does Bernstein question in Chapter 5?

2. How does Howard Hunt respond to the story about the burglars’ connection to the White House?

3. What is Chapin’s job at the White House?

4. What does the young Post reporter use to see if Segretti is home?

5. For whom does Howard Hunt work directly?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Deep Throat treat Woodward?

2. What happens in the Nixon campaign immediately after the burglaries?

3. What tips Woodward off at the courtroom that things are more than they seem?

4. What does the Bookkeeper help Bernstein link?

5. Why do the reporters continue with the case?

6. How do the reporters make the link from the men to the White House?

7. Why is Donald Segretti important?

8. Why did Sloan resign his position?

9. Who was Deep Throat?

10. Why do they combine their articles?

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

Some of CRP’s work – as well as that of the White House under Nixon – can be seen to stem from a desire for revenge. In what way might this be true? Use the example of the Post’s persecution to support your thesis.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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