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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. How does Eugene fare in his new position as offered to him by President Truman?
(a) Eugene is fired.
(b) Eugene is successful.
(c) Eugene is criticized daily.
(d) Eugene resigns in December.

2. Father finds Kay too __________ for the London School of Economics.
(a) Scattered
(b) Smart
(c) Quiet
(d) Immature

3. What is the nickname of the daughter, Elizabeth, who is born in 1914?
(a) Lili
(b) Bis
(c) Liz
(d) Bethie

4. Who is the costly acquisition that is strong and domineering as he goes about cleaning up the organization at the new paper?
(a) Harry Gladstein
(b) Ben Bradlee
(c) Estes Kefauver
(d) John Sweeterman

5. Polly Wisner hosts a _____________ party in order to bolster the esteem and the recognition of Kay.
(a) Salute to Kay Graham
(b) Kay - This is Your Life
(c) Hats off to Kay
(d) Here's Kay

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nickname the children have for their initial caretaker?

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

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

4. What does Phil's father want him to help him with instead of doing anything else?

5. What does Kay write for the first year at her father's newspaper?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Phil receives treatment from Dr. Farber during his time after the breakdown. What kind of psychology does Farber ascribe to?

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

4. How does Kay avoid academic probation after battling with a hated history teacher?

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

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

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

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

9. What is Philip Graham doing when Kay Meyer first meets him in Washington?

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

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