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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kay begins to write the __________ section of the Sunday Post while Phil is busy at work.
(a) Entertainment
(b) Sports
(c) Brains
(d) Society

2. What is the huge country home of the Meyers at Mt. Kisco referred to as?
(a) The country
(b) The beauty
(c) The homestead
(d) The farm

3. ___________ wants to read all of Kay's copy after she has written it.
(a) Mother
(b) Cissy
(c) Father
(d) Flo

4. Polly Wisner hosts a _____________ party in order to bolster the esteem and the recognition of Kay.
(a) Salute to Kay Graham
(b) Kay - This is Your Life
(c) Hats off to Kay
(d) Here's Kay

5. WWI falls conveniently at the time Eugene's __________ calls for him to take up public service.
(a) Map of life
(b) Stocks
(c) Energy
(d) Age

6. Kay promises Phil that while she is rich, she is willing to live on _______________.
(a) Nothing
(b) Her daddy's coattails
(c) What he earns
(d) Her trust fund

7. What is the nickname of family friend Eleanor Medill Patterson?
(a) Lovey
(b) Tissa
(c) Lili
(d) Cissy

8. What is the nickname the children have for their initial caretaker?
(a) Miss Fitch
(b) Powelly
(c) Maria
(d) Madame Powell

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

10. Kay keeps tabs on a ________ full of strikebreakers making the rounds of the waterfront.
(a) Room
(b) House
(c) Boxcar
(d) Factory

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

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

13. 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) Harry Gladstein
(c) John Sweeterman
(d) Ben Bradlee

14. Frankfurter approves of Phil and Kay, but ___________ is not keen about the arrangement.
(a) Eugene Meyer
(b) Ernest Graham
(c) Agnes Meyer
(d) Mary Graham

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Farber is treating Phil, but whose psychology does this therapist use in dealing with patients?

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

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

4. What is the major that Kay eventually declares when she is at college?

5. What does Kay decline to join as they only invite her reluctantly because of her half-Jewish background?

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