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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. What does Agnes do for two months after the birth of Elizabeth in 1914?
(a) Travels around Europe
(b) Stays in a mental ward
(c) Stays at home with her
(d) Runs for office

2. Where do Phil and Kay sail off to for their honeymoon trip after the wedding?
(a) Hawaii
(b) Cuba
(c) Bermuda
(d) No where

3. What does Kay decline to join as they only invite her reluctantly because of her half-Jewish background?
(a) French Club
(b) Youth group
(c) Political organizations
(d) Sororities

4. What position does Phil take in order to learn the newspaper business at the top?
(a) Printer
(b) Editor
(c) Publisher
(d) Deputy

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Kay write for the first year at her father's newspaper?

3. Who is the costly acquisition that is strong and domineering as he goes about cleaning up the organization at the new paper?

4. Who learns of the purchase of Eugene's publication, though she learns of it secondhand?

5. Kay decides to roll bandages for the ____________ as she is bored with typing and shorthand classes.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Phil denounce the efforts of the Teamsters to unionize the Post's circulation?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is the offer that Kay accepts from the Washington Post as she continues to keep company with her father?

9. Why does Kay not agree with Phil's choice to back Bradlee's crusade to desegregate swimming pools in Washington?

10. Why is Philip Graham's father not keen about the idea of Kay and Phil getting married?

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