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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. Margaret Ellen Powell is hired by the Meyerses in order to raise the ________ children they will eventually have.
(a) Four
(b) Five
(c) Two
(d) Three

2. Kay cannot help being a _________ and a guileless tattletale when she is younger.
(a) Brat
(b) Daddy's little girl
(c) Willful child
(d) Goody two shoes

3. WWI falls conveniently at the time Eugene's __________ calls for him to take up public service.
(a) Energy
(b) Stocks
(c) Map of life
(d) Age

4. Kay battles with a hated __________ teacher about a paper on the position of women in the Middle Ages.
(a) History
(b) Literature
(c) Anthropology
(d) English

5. Dr. Farber is treating Phil, but whose psychology does this therapist use in dealing with patients?
(a) Rollo May
(b) Paulo Coehlo
(c) Sigmund Freud
(d) Carl Jung

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Phil horrified to find out that Kay wants to become after they are married?

2. Kay is upset with Phil using the paper to help promote the desegregation of ________________ in Washington.

3. What does the family friend from #25 persuade Father to purchase?

4. What does Agnes do for two months after the birth of Elizabeth in 1914?

5. Polly Wisner hosts a _____________ party in order to bolster the esteem and the recognition of Kay.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 frustrates Kay when she is staying in the town of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, as Phil is sent to Boot Camp?

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