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

2. At what kind of school did Kay begin her education as a child?
(a) Montessori
(b) Public
(c) Catholic
(d) Jewish

3. Philip Graham is first ________ for Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed and in line for a job with Frankfurter.
(a) Advising
(b) Interning
(c) Campaigning
(d) Clerking

4. Dr. Farber is treating Phil, but whose psychology does this therapist use in dealing with patients?
(a) Sigmund Freud
(b) Carl Jung
(c) Rollo May
(d) Paulo Coehlo

5. Bob Elliott invites Kay to be his __________ on two labor confrontations.
(a) Legman
(b) Eyes in the sky
(c) Assistant
(d) Wingman

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Phil and Kay call their baby, who is causing Kay to be on bedrest to avoid another miscarriage?

2. At what publication does Father get Kay a job to conceal her ties to the Post?

3. What is the nickname the children have for their initial caretaker?

4. The _______________ raises a furor over Kay working without pay at the Mount Vernon Argus.

5. Why is the person in #55 not keen on Phil marrying Kay?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mother think of the women that she meets when she is living in Washington with Eugene?

2. How is Father's crusade to improve the Washington Post aided during his leadership of the paper?

3. Where do the Meyers spend their summers after spending their winters in Washington?

4. Kay states in her book that Agnes did not fall in love with Eugene instantly. What was she attracted to in him?

5. What do Mother and Phil lock heads over during the years at Glen Welby, where life seems right?

6. What does Kay think it is wiser for her to do since she is the daughter of a publisher?

7. What does Agnes do four months after the birth of Kay?

8. What is Philip Graham doing when Kay Meyer first meets him in Washington?

9. What does Agnes consider to be a part of the contract of marriage in terms of duties?

10. What does Father take from the hint of family friend and journalist, Eleanor Medill 'Cissy' Patterson?

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