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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What magazine did White write a lot for?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) The Washington Post.
(c) Holiday.
(d) Time.

2. What kind of person does White say the city would not be the same without?
(a) The transplants.
(b) The evangelists.
(c) The born and bred.
(d) The tourists.

3. What does White hope to show in his story?
(a) The kind of people who live in New York.
(b) How he became a successful writer.
(c) The best way to travel in New York.
(d) The difference in New York over time.

4. What year was this story written?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1948.

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

6. Why did White make a strange choice of words when talking about what he refused to do in his book before publication?
(a) He wanted people to notice that verbiage.
(b) He wanted to coin a new phrase.
(c) He was being sarcastic.
(d) He didn't like the changes being made.

7. What about New York does White say will always remain elusive?
(a) Its personality.
(b) Its effect.
(c) Its true meaning.
(d) Its influence.

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

9. Where did White live when he began writing this book?
(a) In Queens.
(b) Outside of New York.
(c) In Brooklyn.
(d) In The Bronx.

10. How do we know White cared for New York?
(a) He credits his success to the city.
(b) All of the answers are correct.
(c) He enjoys the variety there.
(d) He writes about the opportunities there.

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

12. Who came up with the different categories of people that White writes about?
(a) White.
(b) His wife.
(c) His father.
(d) His stepson.

13. What does White say is an important thing that comes along with one of the gifts New York offers to all men?
(a) Motivation.
(b) Elevation.
(c) Participation.
(d) Compromise.

14. What aspect of New York brought in by the residents does White appreciate the most?
(a) Restlessness.
(b) Solidity.
(c) Energy.
(d) Passion.

15. What does White attribute the ability for a man to change himself in New York to?
(a) Crowds.
(b) Diversity.
(c) Energy.
(d) Motivation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of New York resident does White like the most?

2. Where was the writer of the introduction of this book working?

3. Who gives a good description of White?

4. Why is White's stepson happy that White can't see the city now?

5. How did White hope New York would progress?

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