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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. Who invests heavily in Post stock and puts the Post on the same level of excellence as Disney?
(a) Truman Capote
(b) Warren Buffet
(c) Normal Rockafeller
(d) Bill Gates

2. Concerned about his place in history, LBJ has brought masses of top secret documents about ____________.
(a) Nixon
(b) Vietnam
(c) England
(d) Cuba

3. Kay is certain that the Post and Newsweek will go harder on ____________ because of her friendship.
(a) Nixon
(b) Beebe
(c) Kissinger
(d) Bradlee

4. Phil pressures John F. Kennedy to __________ taxes in order to boost the economy, a move which is successful.
(a) Raise
(b) Offset
(c) Cut
(d) Balance

5. Kay resents ____________'s unwillingness to accept her, but is intimidated and defers to his ideas.
(a) Elliott
(b) Benton
(c) Bradlee
(d) Sweeterman

Short Answer Questions

1. Kay is sufficiently free from worry to indulge in her interest in _____________, pushing her to travel around the world.

2. Dugan duped the management into thinking that the pressmen would ___________.

3. Kay actually told Women's Wear Daily back in 1969 that a ___________ would be better suited to her job than she.

4. Kay realizes that the Post has no ___________ within four levels of her own position.

5. Kay believes that after Phil's suicide, she has lost Phil _____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kay look forward to when John Prescott comes in to take the place of Ignatius?

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

3. Why does Kay feel it is her job to keep in touch with U.S. officials in and out of office?

4. What is the purpose of the cruise that Mother takes Kay on during this part of Kay's memoir?

5. What does Phil do in order to pay for the purchase of the news magazine for business people?

6. What are the standing orders of Bradlee during the Watergate story that is unfolding?

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

8. What happens when there are union negotiations taking place at the Post?

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

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

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