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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 is a part of the press corps who attends _________'s press conference in the Oval Office after Hitler invades Poland.
(a) Eisenhower
(b) LBJ
(c) Kennedy
(d) FDR

2. How many pages has the purchased publication shrunk to when Eugene buys it?
(a) 50
(b) 18
(c) 100
(d) 20

3. What is the nickname the children have for their initial caretaker?
(a) Maria
(b) Madame Powell
(c) Miss Fitch
(d) Powelly

4. 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

5. What is the job that Truman offers to Father, an offer Father cannot refuse?
(a) President of WorldBank
(b) Personal assistant
(c) Secretary of State
(d) Secretary of Commerce

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Farber is treating Phil, but whose psychology does this therapist use in dealing with patients?

2. ___________ wants to read all of Kay's copy after she has written it.

3. The _______________ raises a furor over Kay working without pay at the Mount Vernon Argus.

4. What is the name of the journal of the New School for Social Research that Agnes helps to co-found and edit?

5. When the costs at the Post are closely ____________, then the Post begins to make more money than the Star.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kay avoid academic probation after battling with a hated history teacher?

2. What kind of man is John Sweeterman, who is brought in as a Post business manager?

3. What is the state of the Washington Post when Father decides to buy it to rejuvenate it?

4. Whom do Eugene and Agnes hire during the course of their around-the-world honeymoon?

5. What do Mother and Phil lock heads over during the years at Glen Welby, where life seems right?

6. What does Kay think it is wiser for her to do since she is the daughter of a publisher?

7. What is Kay surprised about when she drives to Florida to see Phil's family?

8. Why does Kay not agree with Phil's choice to back Bradlee's crusade to desegregate swimming pools in Washington?

9. Why is Philip Graham's father not keen about the idea of Kay and Phil getting married?

10. Why does Phil denounce the efforts of the Teamsters to unionize the Post's circulation?

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