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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. To where does Phil transfer when he finds the Office of Strategic Services too political?
(a) Air corps
(b) Peace Corps
(c) Marines
(d) Navy

2. Of what person does Agnes become a protegee during the early years of her marriage to Eugene?
(a) Carl Jung
(b) Rollo May
(c) Charles Lang Freer
(d) Sigmund Freud

3. What does Phil most enjoy about the military and its boot camp?
(a) Camaraderie
(b) Foul language
(c) Ineptitude
(d) Sadism

4. Mother finds the women of Washington intellectually _______ but enjoys their luncheon debates.
(a) Backward
(b) Reprehensible
(c) Superior
(d) Dull

5. Who quickly leaves to go to Harvard and joins Newsweek's European staff?
(a) Don Wiggins
(b) Kay Graham
(c) Cissy Armstrong
(d) Ben Bradlee

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kay need during this trying time though she does not know how to admit it?

2. At what publication does Father get Kay a job to conceal her ties to the Post?

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

4. Kay also decides to join the _________ club formed by soldiers' wives, many of whmo are pregnant and working.

5. What is the first name of the woman that Eugene decided to marry two years after meeting her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Mother and Phil lock heads over during the years at Glen Welby, where life seems right?

2. Where do the Meyers spend their summers after spending their winters in Washington?

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

4. What kind of man is John Sweeterman, who is brought in as a Post business manager?

5. What is Philip Graham doing when Kay Meyer first meets him in Washington?

6. What does Father arrange for Kay when she goes to San Francisco to meet with family?

7. How is Father's crusade to improve the Washington Post aided during his leadership of the paper?

8. What does Mother think of the women that she meets when she is living in Washington with Eugene?

9. Kay states in her book that Agnes did not fall in love with Eugene instantly. What was she attracted to in him?

10. What does Agnes consider to be a part of the contract of marriage in terms of duties?

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