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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Margaret Ellen Powell is hired by the Meyerses in order to raise the ________ children they will eventually have.
(a) Two
(b) Four
(c) Five
(d) Three

2. Kay is upset with Phil using the paper to help promote the desegregation of ________________ in Washington.
(a) Swimming pools
(b) Houses
(c) Restaurants
(d) Drinking fountains

3. What do Phil and Kay call their baby, who is causing Kay to be on bedrest to avoid another miscarriage?
(a) Plum
(b) Petunia
(c) Cookie
(d) Sweetness

4. Kay is charmed by Phil's ability to penetrate ___________ when they talk with each other.
(a) Lies
(b) Hard topics
(c) Human nature
(d) Humor

5. When the costs at the Post are closely ____________, then the Post begins to make more money than the Star.
(a) Ignored
(b) Enjoyed
(c) Controlled
(d) Calculated

6. What is the place where the Grahams and their families like to spend time relaxing?
(a) Glen Murderos
(b) Glen Allen
(c) Glen Ellen
(d) Glen Welby

7. ____________ can still function when he needs to, through correspondence, memos, and telephone.
(a) Phil
(b) Don
(c) Eugene
(d) Ben

8. What does Kay decline to join as they only invite her reluctantly because of her half-Jewish background?
(a) Sororities
(b) French Club
(c) Youth group
(d) Political organizations

9. What reveals a frightening frenzy in Phil and almost forces them to call off the wedding?
(a) Drugs
(b) Drinking
(c) Disappointment
(d) Women

10. Kay admits to being shyer and less confident, being fearful of _____________.
(a) Boring others
(b) Heights
(c) Her husband
(d) Crowds

11. What is the religious background of Kay's father's side of the family?
(a) Catholic
(b) Baptist
(c) Protestant
(d) Jewish

12. What does the family friend from #25 persuade Father to purchase?
(a) Time-Herald
(b) Time Magazine
(c) The Washington Post
(d) People Magazine

13. Father shares concerns about the ___________ threat with Kay.
(a) Disease
(b) Media
(c) Nazi
(d) Communist

14. Where does Father take Kay in order to meet the family and to arrange a job for her?
(a) Chicago
(b) Detroit
(c) Los Angeles
(d) San Francisco

15. 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) Harry Gladstein
(c) Estes Kefauver
(d) John Sweeterman

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the rooms in the new house on R street that receives the special attention of Kay?

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

3. What is the nickname the children have for their initial caretaker?

4. Kay promises Phil that while she is rich, she is willing to live on _______________.

5. What is the traumatic event that happens to Eugene's brother, Edgar?

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