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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kay hesitates, but eventually accepts an invitation to cruise the Greek islands with ____________.

2. Kay may be influenced by Gloria Steinem, but she is put off by the militant ____________ extremists.

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

4. What does Roger Parkinson suggest to help the Post get its papers printed for the next day?

5. What is the greatest worry of Kay in her role as a leader at the Post?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Roger Parkinson suggest when the pressmen strike and attack?

3. What happens during the pressmens' Pearl Harbor as Kay finds out early in the morning on October 1, 1975?

4. What is the world's reaction to Watergate during this time, as it's only just begun to unfold?

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

6. How might one describe Kay's relationship to Sweeterman during her position at the Post?

7. What does Bradlee do in order to help improve the Post staff in his new position?

8. What does Simmons unload in order to begin to help the Washington Post be as profitable as possible?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kay's love life seems to become less and less of a concern once her husband has died and she begins leading the newspaper.

Part 1: Kay notes that she is married to her job once Phil dies. What does this mean?

Part 2: Do you think that Kay even had time for romantic relationships?

Part 3: What might have happened had Kay gotten married again? Would she have been the same sort of wife she was to Phil?

Essay Topic 2

The gender roles taken on by Kay and Phil in their marriage are clear, even if they are not the general rule in today's society.

Part 1: What gender-specific roles did Kay and Phil take on in their marriage?

Part 2: What might have happened had Kay been the one who took the leadership position at the Post instead of Phil?

Part 3: Why do you think that Kay, in all of her women's rights actions later, was satisfied with just being a stay at home mom?

Essay Topic 3

The theme of sexism runs rampant in this book, with even Kay's father telling her that no man should be working for his wife when Kay's husband is given the position at the Post as opposed to her.

Part 1: Why do you think Kay's father thought that Phil was up to the task for the job?

Part 2: Do you think Kay would have made a better editor than Phil did? Why or why not?

Part 3: Why do you think that men though women were less able to handle the stresses of the newspaper world?

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