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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) Interesting, but not interested.
(b) Neither interesting nor interested.
(c) Both interested and interesting.
(d) Interested, but not interesting.

2. When does White marry Katharine Angell?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1927.

3. Where has White's brother, Stanley, moved to in order to work as a landscape architect?
(a) Florida.
(b) California.
(c) Nevada.
(d) Texas.

4. What does White buy for Katharine with the money from the published story, The Lady is Cold?
(a) Candy.
(b) Flowers.
(c) A necklace.
(d) A coat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What state did White and his family travel to in August?

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

3. How does White describe his time with the New Yorker?

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

5. What does White first submit to the New Yorker?

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