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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. Early on, the Post is dragged into Nixon's war against the "eastern establishment _________ press."
(a) Conservative
(b) Undermining
(c) Liberal
(d) Elitist

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

3. Kay says she should have __________ the letter where AG John Mitchell called the Post 'the best paper in the country.'
(a) Hid
(b) Framed
(c) Burned
(d) Not opened

4. Kay actually told Women's Wear Daily back in 1969 that a ___________ would be better suited to her job than she.
(a) Reporter
(b) Woman
(c) Monkey
(d) Man

5. What does Phil have to cut back on since Kay is ill, helping his mental health tremendously?
(a) Drinking
(b) Work schedule
(c) Time overseas
(d) Social schedule

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. After a year of widowhood, Kay's _______ grows more bearable to her, but the paper is still difficult.

4. What does Mother do with Kay in order to take her mind off thinking about Phil's suicide?

5. Kay believes it is difficult to appraise what kind of president _________ might have been had he lived longer.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the purpose of the cruise that Mother takes Kay on during this part of Kay's memoir?

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

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

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

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

10. What happens during Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre after his tapes are subpoenaed?

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