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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 does Deep Throat refuse to do for Woodward in Chapter 9?

2. What is strange about L. Patrick Gray’s position?

3. Who wins the presidential election?

4. What do Gray’s notes do to the Post?

5. What is one document from Hunt’s safe that was destroyed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do the reporters believe about Segretti?

3. Why would the President want to ‘destroy’ the Post?

4. Why are the reporters upset with the Post’s coverage of Nixon’s policy change in Chapter 14?

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

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

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

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

9. Why does McCord write his letter to the judge?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Bookkeeper is one of the first major sources the team of reporters has. What information does she provide? What information does this lead to? Why is she important?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Sloan provides the reporters with a variety of claims and evidence. Detail their relationship to Sloan. At what points do they trust him? Mistrust him? How is this in keeping with his character, as detailed by the book?

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