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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kay write for the first year at her father's newspaper?
(a) Classifieds
(b) Front page news
(c) Sports articles
(d) Light editorials

2. What does Eugene know he can count on Agnes to provide for him during their marriage?
(a) Staunch support
(b) Social wiles
(c) Loving motherly instincts
(d) Silence

3. To what school does Kay transfer after not going to the London School of Economics?
(a) University of Chicago
(b) Boston University
(c) University of Maryland
(d) Smith College

4. Who is the costly acquisition that is strong and domineering as he goes about cleaning up the organization at the new paper?
(a) Estes Kefauver
(b) John Sweeterman
(c) Ben Bradlee
(d) Harry Gladstein

5. Father decides that he will apply his business sense to the publication as he has no experience in ___________.
(a) Design
(b) Journalism
(c) Marketing
(d) Finances

6. What is the first name of the woman that Eugene decided to marry two years after meeting her?
(a) Kay
(b) Katharine
(c) Agnes
(d) Maria

7. Under which president does Eugene become managing director of the War Finance Corporation?
(a) FDR
(b) Richard Nixon
(c) Warren Harding
(d) LBJ

8. Who learns of the purchase of Eugene's publication, though she learns of it secondhand?
(a) Flo
(b) Agnes
(c) Kay
(d) Ruth

9. Who do Kay and Phil support in the election year, though her parents do not agree with her?
(a) LBJ
(b) Nixon
(c) Eisenhower
(d) FDR

10. At what school does Agnes attend courses during her marriage to Eugene?
(a) Columbia
(b) Harvard
(c) Vassar
(d) Yale

11. How many pages has the purchased publication shrunk to when Eugene buys it?
(a) 50
(b) 18
(c) 100
(d) 20

12. What kind of man does Eugene sign up to be in Washington, serving on the War Industries Board?
(a) Congressman
(b) All the answers man
(c) Yes man
(d) Dollar a year man

13. What is NOT one of the duties that Agnes feels she has to do as a part of her marriage contract?
(a) Act as a hostess
(b) Bear and raise children
(c) Make love
(d) Run the household

14. What name does Kay drop in order to get in to tour the plant where the union struggle is taking place?
(a) Her mother
(b) The Post
(c) Her school
(d) Cissy

15. What does Kay decline to join as they only invite her reluctantly because of her half-Jewish background?
(a) French Club
(b) Political organizations
(c) Sororities
(d) Youth group

Short Answer Questions

1. Kay promises Phil that while she is rich, she is willing to live on _______________.

2. How does Eugene fare in his new position as offered to him by President Truman?

3. What is one of the rooms in the new house on R street that receives the special attention of Kay?

4. Who is the dominant influence in the lives of Phil and Kay, reveling in gossip, arguments, and irreverence?

5. Kay decides to roll bandages for the ____________ as she is bored with typing and shorthand classes.

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