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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 travels 10,000 miles to interview people, leaving ________ with space to establish his authority.
(a) Warren
(b) John
(c) Ben
(d) Don

2. Kay may be influenced by Gloria Steinem, but she is put off by the militant ____________ extremists.
(a) Education
(b) Lesbian
(c) Male
(d) Man-hating

3. Kay's goal is for politicians and other US officials to begin to see journalists as ____________.
(a) Lovers
(b) Partisan
(c) Friends
(d) Bi-partisan

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The break in at the _____________ National Headquarters is first dismissed as a third rate burglary.

3. Ben Bradlee's standing orders to the staff during the Watergate scandal is to push relentlessly for the ____________.

4. What disease does Kay hide from Phil during a crucial time when she feels she should not upset him?

5. Kay's friend Polly Wisner's husband also ___________, just as Kay's husband Phil did.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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