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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. Lally urges her mother to heed St. Paul's advice: "In all things give __________."
(a) Patience
(b) Thanks
(c) Blessings
(d) Heed

2. Newsweek loses money and diverts talent to its ill-conceived launching of ___________.
(a) ESPN
(b) Everett Herald
(c) News Today
(d) Inside Sports

3. Who is poised to take over Kay's position at the Post, though she is concerned about the timing?
(a) Buffet
(b) Don
(c) Ruth
(d) Lally

4. Who is the star reporter that Bradlee hires from the New York Times, helping to rejuvenate the Post?
(a) Molly Parker
(b) David Brashears
(c) Barbara Walters
(d) David Broder

5. What does Roger Parkinson suggest to help the Post get its papers printed for the next day?
(a) A miracle
(b) Helicopters
(c) Hand cranked editions
(d) Scabs

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The guests at the Bohlens' farewell party have no idea that Kennedy has already seen pictures of ___________.

3. Who is the elected prime minister of Great Britain whom Kay is linked with romantically?

4. Kay is told it will take her __________ years to win the people's hearts from the Vietcong.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What happens after Stevenson meets up with Kay when she is in London on her way to the Aegean?

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

9. How does Kay feel that some of her feelings of inferiority have been bred into her generation of women?

10. What does Simmons unload in order to begin to help the Washington Post be as profitable as possible?

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