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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Turtle Bay, 1950-1951.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Based on White's input to a book on the New Yorker, from which magazines was Ross trying to make the New Yorker different?
(a) Life and Harper's.
(b) Life.
(c) Neither Life nor Harper's.
(d) Harper's.

2. Which one of White's books is co-authored by Katharine?
(a) "The Trumpet of the Swan".
(b) "The Elements of Style".
(c) "Charlotte's Web".
(d) "A Subtreasury of American Humor".

3. What question does White tell Thurber he would like to ask President Roosevelt?
(a) "Where's the Humor?"
(b) "What's the Joke?"
(c) "What's with the Laughter?"
(d) "What's So Funny?"

4. Which one of the following is not a type of Hollywood tree that White includes in his letter to Stanley?
(a) Rope ladder tree.
(b) Hollow tree.
(c) All-purpose tree.
(d) Willow tree.

5. With which faculty member(s) does White eventually write "The Elements of Style"?
(a) Martin Sampson.
(b) William Strunk.
(c) Bristow Adams and William Strunk.
(d) Bristow Adams and Martin Sampson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What concern does White have about additional editions of "Stuart Little"?

2. Where has White's brother, Stanley, moved to in order to work as a landscape architect?

3. Which organization's offer of membership does White decline?

4. Following the death of Katharine's father, where do the Whites vacation?

5. What is the mood of White's January 8, 1938 letter to James Thurber?

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