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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. What does Mother do with Kay in order to take her mind off thinking about Phil's suicide?
(a) Takes her on a cruise
(b) Lets her move home
(c) Lets her cry on her shoulder
(d) Stays at the house with her

2. Phil orders a trip for the whole family to ___________ before sending Don off to Harvard.
(a) Florida
(b) Bermuda
(c) Europe
(d) Hawaii

3. What does Dr. Farber refuse to do in relation to Phil's mental disorder?
(a) Treat Phil
(b) Talk to Kay
(c) Label his affliction
(d) Come to the house for therapy sessions

4. Star becomes less important to the world as Americans are no longer reading __________ newspapers.
(a) Afternoon
(b) Any
(c) Trashy
(d) Gossip

5. Beebe dies of ______ the day after listening to Nixon's speech and giving a last hurrah from his hospital bed.
(a) Surgery complications
(b) Diabetes
(c) Cancer
(d) Heart disease

Short Answer Questions

1. Phil decides to arbitrarily tone down Newsweek's reporting of the _______________.

2. Where does Phil request to go for his weekend break, even though doctors are concerned and Kay would have been had she seen the suicidal writings of Phil?

3. Who makes the first connection to Nixon's re-election fund, keeping him from getting fired from his reporter job?

4. What does Roger Parkinson suggest to help the Post get its papers printed for the next day?

5. That Nixon keeps _________ in 1971 to 1972 becomes known, though Kay cannot remember if she was on it.

Short Essay Questions

1. What action does Phil take that Kay is not completely convinced is a good idea?

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

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

4. What does Buffet suggest that Kay do with the undervalued stock?

5. Why does Kay feel it is her job to keep in touch with U.S. officials in and out of office?

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

7. What does Bradlee do in order to help improve the Post staff in his new position?

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

9. What happens when Kay gets Newsweek to feature the Third World in its magazine?

10. What do none of the guests at the Bohlens' farewell party suspect of JFK, according to Kay?

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