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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What setback had the Post encountered in 1971?
(a) It had gone bankrupt.
(b) The New York Times had published the Pentagon Papers.
(c) Time Magazine got an interview with the President.
(d) They were scooped on a story about a Vietnam general.

2. Where were the majority of the Watergate burglars from?
(a) Washington D.C.
(b) New York.
(c) California.
(d) Miami.

3. Where did Bernstein receive his college diploma?
(a) Yale.
(b) Harvard.
(c) He didn’t.
(d) Community college.

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

5. What time does Woodward and Deep Throat’s meeting in Chapter 6 end?
(a) Five a.m.
(b) Six a.m.
(c) Four a.m.
(d) Three a.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sloan tell the reporters about the money in Chapter 8?

2. What does Bradlee not ask Woodward for at lunch?

3. How does Bernstein get into the Bookkeeper’s house?

4. What is John Mitchell’s job?

5. Why was Dahlberg difficult to reach to at first?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Which campaigns did CRP focus on sabotaging?

3. What characterizes Ziegler's response to the allegations?

4. How are Woodward and Bernstein different?

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

6. Why did Sloan resign his position?

7. What is the problem with the article the reporters write about Baldwin?

8. What is strange about the White House librarian's actions?

9. Why do the reporters continue with the case?

10. What does the Bookkeeper help Bernstein link?

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