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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 reveals a frightening frenzy in Phil and almost forces them to call off the wedding?
(a) Disappointment
(b) Drinking
(c) Drugs
(d) Women

2. At what school does Agnes attend courses during her marriage to Eugene?
(a) Vassar
(b) Columbia
(c) Yale
(d) Harvard

3. In 1941, _____________ declares the Washington Post a journal of national importance.
(a) Eugene Meyer
(b) Time
(c) The president
(d) New York Times

4. What is the traumatic event that happens to Eugene's brother, Edgar?
(a) He drowns in his bath tub
(b) Commits suicide
(c) Perishes on Titanic
(d) He is murdered

5. Frankfurter approves of Phil and Kay, but ___________ is not keen about the arrangement.
(a) Agnes Meyer
(b) Eugene Meyer
(c) Mary Graham
(d) Ernest Graham

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the job that Truman offers to Father, an offer Father cannot refuse?

2. The ____________, unlike Father, cannot subsidize the losses of the paper and are fortunate the CBS radio operation is profitable.

3. ___________ is a difficult baby and Kay has to lean on her three-year-old, Lally, for assistance.

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

5. President Truman's _____________ Emergency Committee is based on Father's suggestion.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Agnes do four months after the birth of Kay?

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

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

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

8. Where does Kay's education begin as she is growing up as a part of the Meyer family?

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

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

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