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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The _________ staff at the Washington Post continues to work as usual during the upheaval.
(a) Cartoon
(b) Janitorial
(c) Management
(d) Editorial

2. After a year of widowhood, Kay's _______ grows more bearable to her, but the paper is still difficult.
(a) Grief
(b) Low self esteem
(c) Lack of a partner
(d) Home life

3. What is the greatest worry of Kay in her role as a leader at the Post?
(a) Reporters
(b) Unions
(c) Computers
(d) False stories

4. Who invests heavily in Post stock and puts the Post on the same level of excellence as Disney?
(a) Normal Rockafeller
(b) Bill Gates
(c) Truman Capote
(d) Warren Buffet

5. What is the publication that Phil decides to buy to help strengthen the Post company?
(a) Time Magazine
(b) Newsweek
(c) San Francisco Chronicle
(d) Chicago Tribune

6. Kay is sufficiently free from worry to indulge in her interest in _____________, pushing her to travel around the world.
(a) World issues
(b) Women's rights
(c) World hunger
(d) Genital mutilation

7. Kay says she should have __________ the letter where AG John Mitchell called the Post 'the best paper in the country.'
(a) Hid
(b) Burned
(c) Framed
(d) Not opened

8. Kay believes that after Phil's suicide, she has lost Phil _____________.
(a) Easily.
(b) Completely.
(c) Forever.
(d) Twice.

9. Kay hesitates, but eventually accepts an invitation to cruise the Greek islands with ____________.
(a) Rollo May
(b) Henry Kissinger
(c) Carl Jung
(d) Truman Capote

10. Kay declares that she will work, but that she will not __________ - the opposite of what many expected her to do.
(a) Work at the Post
(b) Remarry
(c) Stay single
(d) Use the trust money

11. Star becomes less important to the world as Americans are no longer reading __________ newspapers.
(a) Afternoon
(b) Gossip
(c) Trashy
(d) Any

12. Phil decides to arbitrarily tone down Newsweek's reporting of the _______________.
(a) Watergate Scandal
(b) War
(c) Pentagon Papers
(d) Bay of Pigs

13. What is the category under which the paper wins the Pulitzer Prize for the work on the DNC break in?
(a) National coverage
(b) Nixon
(c) Investigative reporting
(d) Political reporting

14. Kay realizes that Capote only wants her around at his party in order to re-energize after ______________.
(a) In Cold Blood
(b) His dog's death
(c) Dreamcatchers
(d) A bad breakup

15. Through the 1970s, Kay feels that her ____________ exceeded her accomplishments.
(a) Expectations
(b) Results
(c) Weaknesses
(d) Rumors

Short Answer Questions

1. The guild continues to rally the_______, but it seems to pull an unwise stunt every time resolve begins to falter.

2. What does Mother do with Kay in order to take her mind off thinking about Phil's suicide?

3. What is the title that Kay assumes when she becomes an active leader in the Post?

4. Men and women typically __________ after dinner in Washington, but as Kay rebels, the practice disappears all over Washington.

5. Kay is told it will take her __________ years to win the people's hearts from the Vietcong.

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