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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Wiggins is bothered by the advance knowledge of Diem's _____________ in 1963.
(a) Coup
(b) War
(c) Assassination
(d) Border agreement

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) Nasser
(b) Kennedy
(c) Wiggins
(d) Eisenhower

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

4. Who leads the union at the time of the union disputes at the Post?
(a) Jim Cooper
(b) Brian Flores
(c) Ben Bradlee
(d) John Dugan

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

6. Kay cares about the ________ and keeping it in the family, so she has to make it work.
(a) Paper
(b) House
(c) Graham name
(d) Car

7. Kay realizes that the Post has no ___________ within four levels of her own position.
(a) Poor person
(b) Black
(c) Woman
(d) Asian

8. What does Father insist that every full-speed-ahead business person should have in his/her company?
(a) A full partner
(b) An editing team
(c) A PR person
(d) A secretary

9. Kay is certain that the Post and Newsweek will go harder on ____________ because of her friendship.
(a) Bradlee
(b) Nixon
(c) Kissinger
(d) Beebe

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

11. The Post acquires Kaplan ___________ and stock shares in various newspapers in order to secure its financial stability.
(a) Marketing
(b) Cellular Phones
(c) Educational Centers
(d) Media

12. Reston and Noyes argue that in light of the ____________ letter, it would be senseless for the Post not to be recognized.
(a) Watergate
(b) McCord
(c) Nixon
(d) Pentagon

13. Kay is advised to fight for the Post and to prepare ___________ to inherit the paper by clerking during the summer.
(a) Cissy
(b) Jen
(c) Ruth
(d) Don

14. Men and women typically __________ after dinner in Washington, but as Kay rebels, the practice disappears all over Washington.
(a) Leave
(b) Come together
(c) Segregate
(d) Drink

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes Phil out of his/her will once his affair is brought to light?

2. The White House plays down fears that the company's _________ might be in danger when the time comes for renewal.

3. Kay is sufficiently free from worry to indulge in her interest in _____________, pushing her to travel around the world.

4. Lally urges her mother to heed St. Paul's advice: "In all things give __________."

5. Dugan duped the management into thinking that the pressmen would ___________.

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