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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 is the question among reporters in the courthouse?

2. What is the informal name of the group that included Hunt, Liddy, Young, and Krough?

3. How does Dean’s friend refer to the major Watergate players?

4. Who does Woodward think might be tapping his apartment?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the reporters believe about Segretti?

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

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

4. Why does Nixon reference Cambodia in his public statement?

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

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

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

8. What has changed about Haldeman’s relationship to the President in Chapter 15?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the timeline of the Watergate events. What were the main tipping points? The most significant events?

Essay Topic 2

Many characters are terrified to name Haldeman in connection with Watergate and the cover-up. Why is this? Who was Haldeman, and what was his position? Why might even powerful sources, such as Deep Throat, hesitate to name him?

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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