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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does White compare the city to?

2. What did White want the reader to do as he read this book?

3. Who asked White to write this book?

4. When did White die?

5. What magazine did White write a lot for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the gifts that White says New York has to offer all men?

2. Why does the writer of the introduction say White agreed to write this book?

3. What does White say someone has to do to change things in New York?

4. What does White say New York offers to people who find privacy there?

5. What does White say the first kind of New York resident brings to the city?

6. Who wrote the introduction to this book?

7. What does White choose to talk about after explaining all the things to do in New York?

8. What does White say the third kind of New York resident brings to the city?

9. Who gives a good description of White?

10. What does White say he has done to this book that some people will find inaccurate, and what is his reason for this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

White writes about a few major places in New York. Describe some of these settings discussing how they affected White. Why might White have chosen these particular places and events to share in his memoirs?

Essay Topic 2

What kind of celebrity did White meet in New York, and how did this change his idea of New York?

Essay Topic 3

Freedom was a crucial theme and symbol in this book. How was this theme presented, and how did its place in this story change your view of New York?

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