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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 upsets the reporters about Nixon’s announcement regarding executive privilege in Chapter 14?
(a) It confuses the public.
(b) It changes the facts of their article.
(c) It is all for show.
(d) It makes Nixon look bad.

2. What does Bradlee’s statement in Chapter 9 announce?
(a) That certain facts from the Watergate stories have been recanted.
(b) That the paper has fired the reporters.
(c) That the reporters are on probation.
(d) That the paper stands by its reporters.

3. What is the tone of Dean’s statement at the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) Angry and confused.
(b) Pleasant and calm.
(c) Threatening and defiant.
(d) Evasive and anxious.

4. What do Gray’s notes do to the Post?
(a) Prove its sources wrong.
(b) Send its publisher to jail.
(c) Vindicate it.
(d) Confuse its reporters.

5. Where does Bernstein finally receive his subpoena?
(a) At home.
(b) At his desk.
(c) While visiting a friend.
(d) In the lobby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sloan’s attorney say about Sloan’s denial?

2. What happens with the CRP’s subpoenas in Chapter 13?

3. Why do the reporters use the technique in #87 ?

4. Why does Deep Throat think that the statement referenced in #115 is obvious?

5. What is unusual about McCord?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Deep Throat so upset about the Haldeman article?

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

4. Why is Kissinger angry at Woodward?

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

6. What does Woodward think Deep Throat is warning him about, in the worst case scenario?

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

8. Why does CRP try to recruit university students?

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

10. Why are the documents Gray provides significant?

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