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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. When Kay gets Newsweek to feature the _______________, it is the worst selling issue of the year.
(a) Korean War
(b) Vietnam War
(c) Cast of MASH
(d) Third World

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

3. Ignatius proves mismatched for the job of Post ___________ and is replaced by John Prescott.
(a) Editor
(b) President
(c) Publisher
(d) Reporter manager

4. Kay is told it will take her __________ years to win the people's hearts from the Vietcong.
(a) Two
(b) Five
(c) Fifteen
(d) Ten

5. The guild continues to rally the_______, but it seems to pull an unwise stunt every time resolve begins to falter.
(a) Editors
(b) Writers
(c) Accountants
(d) Managers

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Kay naively takes it personally when _________ is furious about a contradiction that is printed about him in a Newsweek story, even though it is corrected.

4. Phil decides to arbitrarily tone down Newsweek's reporting of the _______________.

5. To what movement is Kay finally awakening, causing her to take action for the cause?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Kay look forward to when John Prescott comes in to take the place of Ignatius?

3. What happens after Stevenson meets up with Kay when she is in London on her way to the Aegean?

4. What does Buffet suggest that Kay do with the undervalued stock?

5. What happens when there are union negotiations taking place at the Post?

6. How does Kay feel that some of her feelings of inferiority have been bred into her generation of women?

7. What happens during Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre after his tapes are subpoenaed?

8. What does Simmons unload in order to begin to help the Washington Post be as profitable as possible?

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

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

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