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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 Father insist that every full-speed-ahead business person should have in his/her company?
(a) A secretary
(b) A PR person
(c) A full partner
(d) An editing team

2. Wiggins is bothered by the advance knowledge of Diem's _____________ in 1963.
(a) Border agreement
(b) Assassination
(c) War
(d) Coup

3. Kay continues to lean heavily on _______ who helps her with running her company and keeping it financially secure.
(a) Cissy
(b) Mother
(c) Buffet
(d) Bradlee

4. Who leads the union at the time of the union disputes at the Post?
(a) Brian Flores
(b) Ben Bradlee
(c) Jim Cooper
(d) John Dugan

5. That Nixon keeps _________ in 1971 to 1972 becomes known, though Kay cannot remember if she was on it.
(a) An enemies list
(b) A media list
(c) A friends list
(d) A kill list

Short Answer Questions

1. Beebe dies of ______ the day after listening to Nixon's speech and giving a last hurrah from his hospital bed.

2. The Post acquires Kaplan ___________ and stock shares in various newspapers in order to secure its financial stability.

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

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

5. Kay leaves it to ____________ to decide whether to invest in cable television news, which is not pursued.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the world's reaction to Watergate during this time, as it's only just begun to unfold?

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