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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. ___________ has been holding the company together during the years of Phil's decline.
(a) Cissy
(b) Beebe
(c) Bradlee
(d) Father

2. The _________ staff at the Washington Post continues to work as usual during the upheaval.
(a) Cartoon
(b) Management
(c) Editorial
(d) Janitorial

3. Kay is told it will take her __________ years to win the people's hearts from the Vietcong.
(a) Five
(b) Two
(c) Fifteen
(d) Ten

4. Men and women typically __________ after dinner in Washington, but as Kay rebels, the practice disappears all over Washington.
(a) Segregate
(b) Drink
(c) Come together
(d) Leave

5. Who invests heavily in Post stock and puts the Post on the same level of excellence as Disney?
(a) Truman Capote
(b) Normal Rockafeller
(c) Warren Buffet
(d) Bill Gates

Short Answer Questions

1. Kay's friend Polly Wisner's husband also ___________, just as Kay's husband Phil did.

2. What does Dr. Farber refuse to do in relation to Phil's mental disorder?

3. Kay says she should have __________ the letter where AG John Mitchell called the Post 'the best paper in the country.'

4. Where do the Grahams fly to finalize the formation of the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service?

5. Kay actually told Women's Wear Daily back in 1969 that a ___________ would be better suited to her job than she.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Phil do in order to pay for the purchase of the news magazine for business people?

2. What does the Nixon spokesman first say of the Democratic National Committee Headquarters break-in?

3. What does Pearson keep Kay from doing during the situation with Phil?

4. What happens when there are union negotiations taking place at the Post?

5. What happens as the result of Kay being conditioned to deal only with important people?

6. What are some of the policies that Kay implements in order to take on the idea of sexism in society?

7. What is the line that Phil uses in his speeches that is still quoted to this day?

8. What happens during the pressmens' Pearl Harbor as Kay finds out early in the morning on October 1, 1975?

9. What does Kay look forward to when John Prescott comes in to take the place of Ignatius?

10. Why do the Grahams fly to Los Angeles in early 1962 at the start of this chapter?

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