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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Most Beautiful Decision, 1929-1930.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does White describe himself as a child?
(a) Nervous, but not fretful.
(b) Fretful, but not nervous.
(c) Neither nervous nor fretful.
(d) Nervous and fretful.

2. What is on the cover of the first New Yorker magazine that White sees?
(a) A queen.
(b) Dancers.
(c) Eustace Tilley.
(d) The New York City skyline.

3. In what musical instrument did White's father specialize?
(a) Violin.
(b) Guitar.
(c) Drums.
(d) Piano.

4. How do Katharine and White communicate while at work?
(a) Interoffice memos.
(b) During office breaks.
(c) The office intercom.
(d) Messages delivered by other people.

5. What poet does White parody in a December, 1918 letter to his mother?
(a) Robert Browning.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does White marry Katharine Angell?

2. What is the name of White and Katharine's Scottish terrier?

3. In which hospital is White staying when he writes to his friend, Jim Wright?

4. What year does White create the cartoon featuring a caption that references the "most beautiful decision" of his life?

5. Where does White wait for Alice during a missed opportunity to see her?

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