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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 does Father insist that every full-speed-ahead business person should have in his/her company?
(a) A secretary
(b) A PR person
(c) An editing team
(d) A full partner

2. Kay's friend Polly Wisner's husband also ___________, just as Kay's husband Phil did.
(a) Likes the country
(b) Commits suicide
(c) Has an affair
(d) Runs a paper

3. Star becomes less important to the world as Americans are no longer reading __________ newspapers.
(a) Gossip
(b) Afternoon
(c) Trashy
(d) Any

4. Kay hesitates, but eventually accepts an invitation to cruise the Greek islands with ____________.
(a) Henry Kissinger
(b) Carl Jung
(c) Truman Capote
(d) Rollo May

5. The break in at the _____________ National Headquarters is first dismissed as a third rate burglary.
(a) Republican
(b) Post
(c) Democratic
(d) Green Party

Short Answer Questions

1. That Nixon keeps _________ in 1971 to 1972 becomes known, though Kay cannot remember if she was on it.

2. Kay's goal is for politicians and other US officials to begin to see journalists as ____________.

3. It comes out that Nixon has a _____________ about which he has apparently forgotten.

4. Who is the reporter who has distinguished himself as conscientious, hardworking and driven at the time of the break in though he's only been at the Post for a few months?

5. Reston and Noyes argue that in light of the ____________ letter, it would be senseless for the Post not to be recognized.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Henry Kissinger want to discuss when he sits down for a lunch with Kay?

2. What are some of the policies that Kay implements in order to take on the idea of sexism in society?

3. What is the line that Phil uses in his speeches that is still quoted to this day?

4. What happens as the result of Kay being conditioned to deal only with important people?

5. What do none of the guests at the Bohlens' farewell party suspect of JFK, according to Kay?

6. What has Beebe been doing during the years of Phil's decline at the Post?

7. What does Roger Parkinson suggest when the pressmen strike and attack?

8. What is the purpose of the cruise that Mother takes Kay on during this part of Kay's memoir?

9. How might one describe Kay's relationship to Sweeterman during her position at the Post?

10. What does Phil do in order to pay for the purchase of the news magazine for business people?

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