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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 disease does Kay hide from Phil during a crucial time when she feels she should not upset him?
(a) Heart murmur
(b) Tuberculosis
(c) Diabetes
(d) Breast cancer

2. Reston and Noyes argue that in light of the ____________ letter, it would be senseless for the Post not to be recognized.
(a) Pentagon
(b) McCord
(c) Nixon
(d) Watergate

3. Phil decides to arbitrarily tone down Newsweek's reporting of the _______________.
(a) Pentagon Papers
(b) War
(c) Bay of Pigs
(d) Watergate Scandal

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Kay gives _________ broad autonomy and he is not bothered by her higher profile.

2. Kay naively takes it personally when _________ is furious about a contradiction that is printed about him in a Newsweek story, even though it is corrected.

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

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

5. Dugan duped the management into thinking that the pressmen would ___________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What has Beebe been doing during the years of Phil's decline at the Post?

2. How might one describe Kay's relationship to Sweeterman during her position at the Post?

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

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

5. What are the standing orders of Bradlee during the Watergate story that is unfolding?

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

7. What does Roger Parkinson suggest when the pressmen strike and attack?

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

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

10. How does the Post already regard Richard Nixon as told from the point of view of Kay?

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