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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. Where do Phil and Kay sail off to for their honeymoon trip after the wedding?
(a) Hawaii
(b) No where
(c) Cuba
(d) Bermuda

2. What does Phil's father want him to help him with instead of doing anything else?
(a) The family bank
(b) The family trading company
(c) His farm
(d) The local high school

3. Of what person does Agnes become a protegee during the early years of her marriage to Eugene?
(a) Carl Jung
(b) Charles Lang Freer
(c) Rollo May
(d) Sigmund Freud

4. Who learns of the purchase of Eugene's publication, though she learns of it secondhand?
(a) Flo
(b) Agnes
(c) Ruth
(d) Kay

5. Philip Graham is first ________ for Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed and in line for a job with Frankfurter.
(a) Interning
(b) Campaigning
(c) Clerking
(d) Advising

Short Answer Questions

1. Bob Elliott invites Kay to be his __________ on two labor confrontations.

2. WWI falls conveniently at the time Eugene's __________ calls for him to take up public service.

3. The truth is that Kay simply longs to be __________________, like the character in Thomas Mann's book.

4. What does the family friend from #25 persuade Father to purchase?

5. What is Phil horrified to find out that Kay wants to become after they are married?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Time declare about the Washington Post in 1941 as its circulation begins to grow?

2. Why can't the Washington Post attract any high quality staff to write for the paper?

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

4. Phil receives treatment from Dr. Farber during his time after the breakdown. What kind of psychology does Farber ascribe to?

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

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

7. Where do the Meyers spend their summers after spending their winters in Washington?

8. Mother takes more of an active role in politics, but what does she feel pride about doing at this point?

9. What happens when Kay ingratiates herself to several key labor figures during a labor dispute she is covering?

10. What frustrates Kay when she is staying in the town of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, as Phil is sent to Boot Camp?

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