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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ____________ can still function when he needs to, through correspondence, memos, and telephone.
(a) Don
(b) Eugene
(c) Ben
(d) Phil

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

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

4. Though her parents oppose the ______________, Kay supports this idea.
(a) Communists
(b) Stock Exchange
(c) Jewish liberation
(d) New Deal

5. Where do Phil and Kay sail off to for their honeymoon trip after the wedding?
(a) No where
(b) Cuba
(c) Hawaii
(d) Bermuda

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

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

8. At what publication does Father get Kay a job to conceal her ties to the Post?
(a) Chicago Tribune
(b) New York Times
(c) Los Angeles Times
(d) San Francisco News

9. What is Phil horrified to find out that Kay wants to become after they are married?
(a) Lady who lunches
(b) Writer
(c) Housewife
(d) Doctor

10. What is the place where the Grahams and their families like to spend time relaxing?
(a) Glen Allen
(b) Glen Welby
(c) Glen Ellen
(d) Glen Murderos

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

12. What does Agnes do for two months after the birth of Elizabeth in 1914?
(a) Runs for office
(b) Stays in a mental ward
(c) Stays at home with her
(d) Travels around Europe

13. Of what person does Agnes become a protegee during the early years of her marriage to Eugene?
(a) Rollo May
(b) Sigmund Freud
(c) Carl Jung
(d) Charles Lang Freer

14. Philip Graham is first ________ for Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed and in line for a job with Frankfurter.
(a) Campaigning
(b) Clerking
(c) Interning
(d) Advising

15. Eugene Meyer is a 32-year-old self-made millionaire _________ and art collector.
(a) Philanthropist
(b) Boxer
(c) Broker
(d) Oil man

Short Answer Questions

1. Kay is upset with Phil using the paper to help promote the desegregation of ________________ in Washington.

2. To what school does Kay transfer after not going to the London School of Economics?

3. Kay keeps tabs on a ________ full of strikebreakers making the rounds of the waterfront.

4. The _______________ raises a furor over Kay working without pay at the Mount Vernon Argus.

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

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