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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these occupations does White say people can be successful at?
(a) Singing.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Styling hair.
(d) All of these.

2. What does White say the people in New York are constantly escaping?
(a) Crime heights.
(b) Hysteria.
(c) Oppression.
(d) Destruction.

3. What does White say someone can do in a short walk in a New York neighborhood?
(a) Get dry cleaning.
(b) All of these.
(c) Buy a paper.
(d) Do your grocery shopping.

4. What kind of tubes take messages from one place to another?
(a) Steel.
(b) Pneumatic.
(c) Vacuum.
(d) Mail Carriers.

5. Which of these cities does White say gives the same sense to all its citizens?
(a) London.
(b) None of the answers is correct.
(c) Paris.
(d) Detroit.

6. What does White compare a non-local visiting New Yorker to?
(a) A commoner coming to a royal court.
(b) An alien visiting a new world.
(c) A foreigner coming to a new country.
(d) A fish talking to a bird.

7. What does White say an enemy could use to destroy the city?
(a) Air raids.
(b) Hackers.
(c) Small planes.
(d) Cannons.

8. What did the city have to do after the Empire State Building was erected?
(a) Move forward.
(b) Pay higher taxes.
(c) Navigate around it.
(d) Think skyward.

9. Which of these is NOT something that White says is destroying the city?
(a) The high population.
(b) The crime rates.
(c) The sewer lines.
(d) The diversity.

10. Which of these do the subterranean lines under the city make possible?
(a) Electricity.
(b) Recycling.
(c) Mail delivery.
(d) Earth renewal.

11. Which of these do the subterranean lines under the city make possible?
(a) Telephone lines.
(b) Animal races.
(c) Sewage dumps.
(d) Rebuilding materials.

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

13. Which of these does White notice a strange change in since he lived in New York?
(a) The clouds.
(b) The parades.
(c) The birds.
(d) The vegetation

14. What made White homeless for some time while living in New York?
(a) His mother didn't send the money he needed.
(b) He wanted to write a book about being homeless.
(c) He didn't have enough writing jobs.
(d) He was kicked out of his apartment.

15. Where did White live for a while when he was poor in New York?
(a) Grand Central Terminal.
(b) Broadway theaters.
(c) Central Park.
(d) A bus station.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does White say some of his numbers will not be accurate?

2. Why does White feel distant from New York?

3. What is the name of White's wife?

4. What does White say is the only thing that could save the city if they went one day without working together in the different racial communities?

5. What does White give a list of reasons for?

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