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

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

3. ___________ has been holding the company together during the years of Phil's decline.
(a) Bradlee
(b) Cissy
(c) Father
(d) Beebe

4. Kay says that she likes Bush Sr. personally, but Newsweek labels him a _____________.
(a) Easy target
(b) Poor leader
(c) Wimp
(d) War monger

5. When Kay gets Newsweek to feature the _______________, it is the worst selling issue of the year.
(a) Third World
(b) Cast of MASH
(c) Vietnam War
(d) Korean War

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Father insist that every full-speed-ahead business person should have in his/her company?

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

3. Phil has stated before that journalism is the ____________ of history.

4. Kay acknowledges the bravery it takes for ___________ members to stay on the job.

5. Men and women typically __________ after dinner in Washington, but as Kay rebels, the practice disappears all over Washington.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Henry Kissinger want to discuss when he sits down for a lunch with Kay?

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

3. What are some of the policies that Kay implements in order to take on the idea of sexism in society?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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