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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. Why is the person in #55 not keen on Phil marrying Kay?
(a) Phil is already engaged
(b) Phil is too foolish
(c) Kay is a Jew
(d) Kay is rich

2. At what kind of school did Kay begin her education as a child?
(a) Montessori
(b) Public
(c) Jewish
(d) Catholic

3. What kind of man does Eugene sign up to be in Washington, serving on the War Industries Board?
(a) Yes man
(b) Dollar a year man
(c) Congressman
(d) All the answers man

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the duties that Agnes feels she has to do as a part of her marriage contract?

2. Kay takes a great part in ______________ when not attending to Phil and to his recovery.

3. Kay keeps tabs on a ________ full of strikebreakers making the rounds of the waterfront.

4. To where does Phil transfer when he finds the Office of Strategic Services too political?

5. At what school does Agnes attend courses during her marriage to Eugene?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Father take from the hint of family friend and journalist, Eleanor Medill 'Cissy' Patterson?

6. What do the Grahams do as they must cooperate on labor relations at their papers?

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

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

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

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

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