Personal History Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 110 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Personal History Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kay begins to write the __________ section of the Sunday Post while Phil is busy at work.
(a) Society
(b) Entertainment
(c) Brains
(d) Sports

2. Kay takes a great part in ______________ when not attending to Phil and to his recovery.
(a) Her father's care
(b) Social causes
(c) The newspaper
(d) The work of her mother

3. What is the one department which is not equaled or passed by the Post in relation to the Star?
(a) Advertising
(b) Sports
(c) Politics
(d) Editorial

4. The _______________ raises a furor over Kay working without pay at the Mount Vernon Argus.
(a) Parents
(b) Red Party
(c) Newspaper Guild
(d) Journalist's Society

5. What college does Kay first attend, learning to survive by bumping into reality?
(a) Yale
(b) Vassar
(c) Harvard
(d) Smith

6. Kay battles with a hated __________ teacher about a paper on the position of women in the Middle Ages.
(a) Literature
(b) History
(c) Anthropology
(d) English

7. Kay decides to roll bandages for the ____________ as she is bored with typing and shorthand classes.
(a) Army
(b) Navy
(c) Red Cross
(d) Postal service

8. Who quickly leaves to go to Harvard and joins Newsweek's European staff?
(a) Cissy Armstrong
(b) Kay Graham
(c) Ben Bradlee
(d) Don Wiggins

9. Kay cannot help being a _________ and a guileless tattletale when she is younger.
(a) Brat
(b) Willful child
(c) Daddy's little girl
(d) Goody two shoes

10. Who do Kay and Phil support in the election year, though her parents do not agree with her?
(a) Eisenhower
(b) FDR
(c) Nixon
(d) LBJ

11. To where do Agnes and Eugene finally move their children to live?
(a) Florida
(b) Virginia
(c) Delaware
(d) Washington

12. Kay does not join the ____________ party, choosing to remain the good girl, even though many of her friends have joined.
(a) Communist
(b) Democratic
(c) Fascist
(d) Republican

13. What is Phil horrified to find out that Kay wants to become after they are married?
(a) Doctor
(b) Writer
(c) Housewife
(d) Lady who lunches

14. Kay is upset with Phil using the paper to help promote the desegregation of ________________ in Washington.
(a) Restaurants
(b) Drinking fountains
(c) Swimming pools
(d) Houses

15. Where do Phil and Kay sail off to for their honeymoon trip after the wedding?
(a) Bermuda
(b) No where
(c) Cuba
(d) Hawaii

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Agnes do for two months after the birth of Elizabeth in 1914?

2. Eugene Meyer is a 32-year-old self-made millionaire _________ and art collector.

3. To what school does Kay transfer after not going to the London School of Economics?

4. ___________ is a difficult baby and Kay has to lean on her three-year-old, Lally, for assistance.

5. Frankfurter approves of Phil and Kay, but ___________ is not keen about the arrangement.

(see the answer keys)

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