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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. Father decides that he will apply his business sense to the publication as he has no experience in ___________.
(a) Design
(b) Finances
(c) Marketing
(d) Journalism

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. Who is continuously on call to talk with Phil as he recuperates from his breakdown?
(a) Kay
(b) Cissy
(c) Flo
(d) Eugene

4. To what school does Kay transfer after not going to the London School of Economics?
(a) Boston University
(b) University of Maryland
(c) Smith College
(d) University of Chicago

5. What is NOT one of the duties that Agnes feels she has to do as a part of her marriage contract?
(a) Act as a hostess
(b) Run the household
(c) Make love
(d) Bear and raise children

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Phil and Kay sail off to for their honeymoon trip after the wedding?

2. What is the place where the Grahams and their families like to spend time relaxing?

3. What is the nickname of family friend Eleanor Medill Patterson?

4. Bob Elliott invites Kay to be his __________ on two labor confrontations.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Mother think of the women that she meets when she is living in Washington with Eugene?

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

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

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