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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Most Beautiful Decision, 1929-1930.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does White describe Adolph Ochs, publisher of the New York Times?
(a) Interesting, but not interested.
(b) Interested, but not interesting.
(c) Both interested and interesting.
(d) Neither interesting nor interested.

2. How does White describe his time with the New Yorker?
(a) Logical.
(b) Chaotic.
(c) Illogical.
(d) Organized.

3. How does White describe himself as a child?
(a) Nervous, but not fretful.
(b) Fretful, but not nervous.
(c) Nervous and fretful.
(d) Neither nervous nor fretful.

4. What job does Katharine Angell, White's future wife, have with the New Yorker when he begins writing there?
(a) Fiction editor.
(b) News editor.
(c) Poetry editor.
(d) Features editor.

5. When does White begin living with three other Cornell graduates?
(a) September, 1924.
(b) November, 1925.
(c) September, 1927.
(d) November, 1926.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does White marry Katharine Angell?

2. What state did White and his family travel to in August?

3. How long after the wedding do White and Katharine return to their jobs?

4. After marrying a Wall Street broker, what example of alliteration did White's sister's name become?

5. What does White first submit to the New Yorker?

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