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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) They were scooped on a story about a Vietnam general.
(d) Time Magazine got an interview with the President.

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

3. What was strange about John Mitchell’s resignation from office?
(a) He genuinely wanted to spend time with his family.
(b) He was ill.
(c) He was a very ambitious man.
(d) He didn’t tell anyone.

4. What does Bradlee not ask Woodward for at lunch?
(a) The names of his sources.
(b) To make sure they proceed carefully.
(c) Confirmation of the facts.
(d) His certainty that he is right.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Young?

2. In what year did the Watergate break-in take place?

3. What does Young provide the reporters?

4. What does the White House hope to get from the Post?

5. What does Bradlee warn the reporters to clean up?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do they combine their articles?

2. Why does Judge Richey's call surprise Bernstein?

3. Why don't the reporters interview Baldwin?

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

5. Which campaigns did CRP focus on sabotaging?

6. What is the importance of USC?

7. Who is Donald Segretti?

8. Why does Woodward want to talk to Mitchell's wife?

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

10. Why was the White House not very concerned about the press?

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