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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the person in #55 not keen on Phil marrying Kay?
(a) Kay is a Jew
(b) Phil is already engaged
(c) Phil is too foolish
(d) Kay is rich

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

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

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

5. What city does Kay find to be a vibrant, youthful city, swept clean of stodginess?
(a) San Francisco
(b) Portland
(c) Chicago
(d) Washington D.C.

6. Who is continuously on call to talk with Phil as he recuperates from his breakdown?
(a) Kay
(b) Cissy
(c) Flo
(d) Eugene

7. Which of the sisters suffers the most from parental inattention of all in the family?
(a) Flo
(b) Ruth
(c) Elizabeth
(d) Kay

8. Who do Kay's friends find most intimidating when they are over at her house?
(a) Elizabeth
(b) Mother
(c) Ruth
(d) Kay

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

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

11. In 1941, _____________ declares the Washington Post a journal of national importance.
(a) Eugene Meyer
(b) The president
(c) New York Times
(d) Time

12. What is the nickname of the daughter, Elizabeth, who is born in 1914?
(a) Bis
(b) Bethie
(c) Lili
(d) Liz

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

14. What reveals a frightening frenzy in Phil and almost forces them to call off the wedding?
(a) Women
(b) Drinking
(c) Drugs
(d) Disappointment

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Phil and Kay sail off to for their honeymoon trip after the wedding?

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

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

4. What college does Kay first attend, learning to survive by bumping into reality?

5. Who quickly leaves to go to Harvard and joins Newsweek's European staff?

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