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

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

3. What is the place where the Grahams and their families like to spend time relaxing?
(a) Glen Murderos
(b) Glen Welby
(c) Glen Allen
(d) Glen Ellen

4. ___________ is a difficult baby and Kay has to lean on her three-year-old, Lally, for assistance.
(a) Ron
(b) Joseph
(c) Ruth
(d) Donny

5. Who is the dominant influence in the lives of Phil and Kay, reveling in gossip, arguments, and irreverence?
(a) Father
(b) Frankfurther
(c) Frick
(d) Cissy

Short Answer Questions

1. Margaret Ellen Powell is hired by the Meyerses in order to raise the ________ children they will eventually have.

2. Kay is a part of the press corps who attends _________'s press conference in the Oval Office after Hitler invades Poland.

3. What is the nickname of the daughter, Elizabeth, who is born in 1914?

4. How does Eugene fare in his new position as offered to him by President Truman?

5. The truth is that Kay simply longs to be __________________, like the character in Thomas Mann's book.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it easy for Kay to hide Phil's true condition from her parents?

2. What kind of man is John Sweeterman, who is brought in as a Post business manager?

3. What is Kay surprised about when she drives to Florida to see Phil's family?

4. What frustrates Kay when she is staying in the town of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, as Phil is sent to Boot Camp?

5. How does Kay avoid academic probation after battling with a hated history teacher?

6. Why can't the Washington Post attract any high quality staff to write for the paper?

7. Why does Phil denounce the efforts of the Teamsters to unionize the Post's circulation?

8. Why does Agnes go to Europe for two months after the birth of her daughter, Elizabeth?

9. What do the Grahams do as they must cooperate on labor relations at their papers?

10. What is the state of the Washington Post when Father decides to buy it to rejuvenate it?

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