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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 changes about Deep Throat’s attitude in Chapter 16?

2. What is unusual about McCord?

3. What do Gray’s notes prove?

4. How do the reporters react to the FBI agent in Chapter 9?

5. Why does Deep Throat think that the statement referenced in #115 is obvious?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the reporters believe about Segretti?

2. What is the reporters’ attitude towards the information coming out about John Dean?

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

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

5. Why is Deep Throat so upset about the Haldeman article?

6. Why are the documents Gray provides significant?

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

8. Why is Kissinger angry at Woodward?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The book covers the discovery and research of many significant events. What methods do Woodward and Bernstein use to do their research? How do they push the limits of journalistic ethics – or do they? In this case, was it worth it?

Essay Topic 2

Research the trials of major Watergate players as detailed by the last chapter. What were their sentences? How long did they serve? Is this justice, in your opinion? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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