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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many men agents did the FBI assign to the Watergate investigation?
(a) One.
(b) One hundred.
(c) A dozen.
(d) One hundred and fifty.

2. How old were Woodward and Bernstein at the time of the Watergate break-ins?
(a) Late twenties.
(b) Late thirties.
(c) Early twenties.
(d) Early thirties.

3. What is the most important name connected with the fund that the reporters have found by Chapter 5?
(a) Mitchell.
(b) Stans.
(c) Liddy.
(d) Haldeman.

4. What was the first link between the burglars and the White House?
(a) The address books.
(b) McCord.
(c) An anonymous source.
(d) The lawyers.

5. How does Woodward find Mrs. Mitchell?
(a) He doesn’t find her.
(b) From the hotel’s front desk.
(c) By following her.
(d) From the hotel’s switchboard.

6. What is Ziegler’s role at the White House?
(a) He is the Chief of Staff.
(b) He is a speechwriter.
(c) He is the Press Secretary.
(d) He is an economic advisor.

7. According to Deep Throat, where did the Canuck Letter originate?
(a) Muskie wrote it.
(b) At the White House.
(c) At the Post.
(d) At CRP.

8. How often had Woodward and Bernstein worked together before Watergate?
(a) Often.
(b) They hadn’t.
(c) Once.
(d) Several times.

9. How do most people on the reporters’ lists react to being contacted?
(a) They are cooperative.
(b) They are furious.
(c) They are concerned.
(d) They are terrified.

10. How many men broke into the Watergate?
(a) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

11. What is unique about the sandwich shop where Bernstein meets his source?
(a) It is next door to the Post.
(b) Democrats often meet there.
(c) Nobody knows about it.
(d) It is a noted Nixon-staffer hangout.

12. What is the pizza that Ziegler references?
(a) One of the pranks played on the McGovern campaign.
(b) Code to warn off the reporters.
(c) A factual error that the reporters made.
(d) A mis-quoted source that the reporters used.

13. What number does Deep Throat amend his response to #57 to?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Five.
(c) Fewer than ten.
(d) More than fifty.

14. Who is Bill Mooney?
(a) A White House staffer.
(b) A CRP staffer.
(c) A pseudonym.
(d) A lawyer.

15. How does the New York Times make the connection between Segretti and Chapin?
(a) Through an unnamed source.
(b) Through telephone records.
(c) Through telephone tapping.
(d) Through Woodward and Bernstein.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does Bernstein call in Chapter 7?

3. How does the subject of the reporters’ story in Chapter 5 respond to it?

4. Who was Bernstein’s source that the book compares to Deep Throat?

5. What was Dahlberg’s position in CRP?

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