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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kay need during this trying time though she does not know how to admit it?
(a) Her mother
(b) Money
(c) Help
(d) A divorce

2. Mother finds the women of Washington intellectually _______ but enjoys their luncheon debates.
(a) Reprehensible
(b) Dull
(c) Superior
(d) Backward

3. Kay realizes that the Post has no ___________ within four levels of her own position.
(a) Black
(b) Asian
(c) Poor person
(d) Woman

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

5. After a year of widowhood, Kay's _______ grows more bearable to her, but the paper is still difficult.
(a) Grief
(b) Low self esteem
(c) Home life
(d) Lack of a partner

Short Answer Questions

1. Father finds Kay too __________ for the London School of Economics.

2. What does Phil most enjoy about the military and its boot camp?

3. At what kind of school did Kay begin her education as a child?

4. Kay cannot help being a _________ and a guileless tattletale when she is younger.

5. Early on, the Post is dragged into Nixon's war against the "eastern establishment _________ press."

(see the answer key)

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