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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is NOT one of the duties that Agnes feels she has to do as a part of her marriage contract?
(a) Bear and raise children
(b) Run the household
(c) Act as a hostess
(d) Make love

3. Kay is upset with Phil using the paper to help promote the desegregation of ________________ in Washington.
(a) Houses
(b) Swimming pools
(c) Restaurants
(d) Drinking fountains

4. What is the one department which is not equaled or passed by the Post in relation to the Star?
(a) Advertising
(b) Sports
(c) Editorial
(d) Politics

5. 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) Ben Bradlee
(d) John Sweeterman

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To where do Agnes and Eugene finally move their children to live?

3. What does Eugene know he can count on Agnes to provide for him during their marriage?

4. Bob Elliott invites Kay to be his __________ on two labor confrontations.

5. What is the temporary situation of Agnes' that lasts four years instead of the short time expected?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kay avoid academic probation after battling with a hated history teacher?

2. Why does Agnes go to Europe for two months after the birth of her daughter, Elizabeth?

3. What is Kay surprised about when she drives to Florida to see Phil's family?

4. What does Time declare about the Washington Post in 1941 as its circulation begins to grow?

5. What does Kay think it is wiser for her to do since she is the daughter of a publisher?

6. What is the state of the Washington Post when Father decides to buy it to rejuvenate it?

7. What does Father think about Kay's admission to the London School of Economics?

8. Why is it easy for Kay to hide Phil's true condition from her parents?

9. Why can't the Washington Post attract any high quality staff to write for the paper?

10. Whom do Eugene and Agnes hire during the course of their around-the-world honeymoon?

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