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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Page 29-58.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does White say keeps all the communities in New York together?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Love.
(c) Tolerance.
(d) Understanding.

2. What amazes White about all the different kinds of people that live in New York?
(a) They live together.
(b) They do not leave the city.
(c) They do not help one another.
(d) They all exist.

3. What does White say would happen if the communities in New York stopped working together for one day?
(a) The population would decrease.
(b) It would explode.
(c) A war would be waged.
(d) The nation would never be the same.

4. How many kinds of people does White say are in New York?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

5. What does White remember the policemen of his youth always having on hand?
(a) Nightsticks.
(b) Guns.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Clubs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these is another thing White says people come to New York looking for?

2. What does White compare a non-local visiting New Yorker to?

3. Which of these do the subterranean lines under the city make possible?

4. Why does White say people will travel to New York from worlds away?

5. What kind of publication was the first to print this book?

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