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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 Adolph Ochs, publisher of the New York Times?
(a) Neither interesting nor interested.
(b) Interested, but not interesting.
(c) Both interested and interesting.
(d) Interesting, but not interested.

2. Where does Katharine travel to in order to get her divorce before marrying White?
(a) Houston.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Sacramento.
(d) Reno.

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

4. In which hospital is White staying when he writes to his friend, Jim Wright?
(a) St. Luke's Hospital.
(b) St. Vincent's Hospital.
(c) St. Barnabas Hospital.
(d) St. Mary's Hospital.

5. How many musical instruments did White learn to play?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) None.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is on the cover of the first New Yorker magazine that White sees?

2. What was White's grandfather well known for?

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

4. What car do White and Howard Cushman use to travel around the country?

5. At what age did White begin to develop his writing style?

(see the answer key)

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