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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 keeps tabs on a ________ full of strikebreakers making the rounds of the waterfront.
(a) House
(b) Factory
(c) Boxcar
(d) Room

2. Kay's _________ celebration is more restrained than most, though she meets a good friend there.
(a) Engagement
(b) Coming out
(c) Graduation
(d) Birthday

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

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

5. Who learns of the purchase of Eugene's publication, though she learns of it secondhand?
(a) Flo
(b) Kay
(c) Agnes
(d) Ruth

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Eugene fare in his new position as offered to him by President Truman?

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

4. Who is Kay's attendant at her wedding to Phil at Mt. Kisco?

5. Mother finds the women of Washington intellectually _______ but enjoys their luncheon debates.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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