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

2. What part of New York does White spend most of his time describing?
(a) Queens.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) The Bronx.

3. What does White say this book will really be?
(a) Reminiscences.
(b) Facts.
(c) Opinions.
(d) An advertisement.

4. What does White compare the city to?
(a) A play in motion.
(b) A vast puzzle.
(c) Poetry put to music.
(d) A piece of fabric.

5. What does White say about the people who don't want the gifts New York has to offer?
(a) They should leave.
(b) They will get them anyway.
(c) They will live in denial.
(d) They can avoid it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does White attribute the ability for a man to change himself in New York to?

2. What were pulled down in New York since White was a boy?

3. What was strange about the terminology White used when talking about what he refused to do to this book before publication?

4. What kind of New York resident was the last that White talked about?

5. What does White call himself as it relates to being a resident of New York?

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