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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Page 1-29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did White refuse to do to this book before publishing it?
(a) Change the names in it.
(b) Bring it down to date.
(c) Write it for children.
(d) Publish it at a magazine.

2. What is the first kind of person who lives in New York?
(a) The ones who were born there.
(b) The ones who left, but will return later.
(c) The ones who commute there.
(d) The ones who moved there from somewhere else.

3. What does White say used to make New York so unique?
(a) Its landscape.
(b) Its businesses.
(c) Its people.
(d) Its activities.

4. What is one of the gifts White said New York gives to all men?
(a) Honesty.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) Emptiness.
(d) Contemplation.

5. What was the occupation of the man who wrote the introduction to this book?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Professor.
(c) Editor.
(d) Writer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the occupation of the celebrity White once met in New York?

2. How do we see how White felt about "The Wizard of Oz"?

3. How did the writer of the introduction of this book know White?

4. What major project was the celebrity involved in that White saw in New York one time?

5. What does the B in E.B. White stand for?

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