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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Kay naively takes it personally when _________ is furious about a contradiction that is printed about him in a Newsweek story, even though it is corrected.
(a) Eisenhower
(b) Kennedy
(c) Nasser
(d) Wiggins

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

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

5. ___________ has been holding the company together during the years of Phil's decline.
(a) Beebe
(b) Father
(c) Cissy
(d) Bradlee

6. Kay realizes she has been conditioned to work and to deal only with __________ people - something which needs to change.
(a) Important
(b) Manipulative
(c) Lower
(d) Uneducated

7. The Post has made costly concessions to the ________, including a clause specifying that outside advertisements must be re-set even if the original copy is used.
(a) Typesetters
(b) Printers
(c) Layout artists
(d) Reporters

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

9. What does Mother do with Kay in order to take her mind off thinking about Phil's suicide?
(a) Takes her on a cruise
(b) Stays at the house with her
(c) Lets her move home
(d) Lets her cry on her shoulder

10. Where do the Grahams fly to finalize the formation of the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service?
(a) Boston
(b) Washington DC
(c) San Francisco
(d) Los Angeles

11. Where does Phil request to go for his weekend break, even though doctors are concerned and Kay would have been had she seen the suicidal writings of Phil?
(a) Mt. Kisco
(b) Martha's Vineyard
(c) San Francisco
(d) Glen Welby

12. Much of the nation thinks that the Watergate matter is _________ and stands with the president.
(a) Necessary
(b) True
(c) Useful
(d) Overblown

13. Who is poised to take over Kay's position at the Post, though she is concerned about the timing?
(a) Ruth
(b) Lally
(c) Don
(d) Buffet

14. Kay believes it is difficult to appraise what kind of president _________ might have been had he lived longer.
(a) Spiro Agnew
(b) LBJ
(c) John F. Kennedy
(d) FDR

15. Kay is told it will take her __________ years to win the people's hearts from the Vietcong.
(a) Fifteen
(b) Two
(c) Ten
(d) Five

Short Answer Questions

1. Beebe dies of ______ the day after listening to Nixon's speech and giving a last hurrah from his hospital bed.

2. When Kay gets Newsweek to feature the _______________, it is the worst selling issue of the year.

3. Kay travels 10,000 miles to interview people, leaving ________ with space to establish his authority.

4. After a year of widowhood, Kay's _______ grows more bearable to her, but the paper is still difficult.

5. Phil has stated before that journalism is the ____________ of history.

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