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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Margaret Ellen Powell is hired by the Meyerses in order to raise the ________ children they will eventually have.
(a) Five
(b) Three
(c) Two
(d) Four

2. The _______________ raises a furor over Kay working without pay at the Mount Vernon Argus.
(a) Red Party
(b) Parents
(c) Journalist's Society
(d) Newspaper Guild

3. What is the name of the journal of the New School for Social Research that Agnes helps to co-found and edit?
(a) 291
(b) The Inner Work
(c) Crimson
(d) The Tidal

4. Kay battles with a hated __________ teacher about a paper on the position of women in the Middle Ages.
(a) English
(b) Literature
(c) History
(d) Anthropology

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the traumatic event that happens to Eugene's brother, Edgar?

2. Who do Kay's friends find most intimidating when they are over at her house?

3. What is the religious background of Kay's father's side of the family?

4. How many pages has the purchased publication shrunk to when Eugene buys it?

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

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