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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the dominant influence in the lives of Phil and Kay, reveling in gossip, arguments, and irreverence?
(a) Frick
(b) Father
(c) Cissy
(d) Frankfurther

2. What does Agnes do for two months after the birth of Elizabeth in 1914?
(a) Stays in a mental ward
(b) Stays at home with her
(c) Runs for office
(d) Travels around Europe

3. Bob Elliott invites Kay to be his __________ on two labor confrontations.
(a) Eyes in the sky
(b) Legman
(c) Wingman
(d) Assistant

4. Kay battles with a hated __________ teacher about a paper on the position of women in the Middle Ages.
(a) Literature
(b) Anthropology
(c) History
(d) English

5. Who is the costly acquisition that is strong and domineering as he goes about cleaning up the organization at the new paper?
(a) Ben Bradlee
(b) John Sweeterman
(c) Estes Kefauver
(d) Harry Gladstein

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Kay and Phil support in the election year, though her parents do not agree with her?

2. Though her parents oppose the ______________, Kay supports this idea.

3. ___________ is a difficult baby and Kay has to lean on her three-year-old, Lally, for assistance.

4. Kay is upset with Phil using the paper to help promote the desegregation of ________________ in Washington.

5. What is NOT one of the duties that Agnes feels she has to do as a part of her marriage contract?

(see the answer key)

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