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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. What does White first submit to the New Yorker?
(a) Short items and poetry.
(b) Short items, long columns, and poetry.
(c) Long columns and poetry.
(d) Long columns and short items.

2. How does White describe publicity to Alice while working at the American Legion News Service?
(a) Old and underpaid.
(b) New and underpaid.
(c) New and overpaid.
(d) Old and overpaid.

3. How many children does Katharine have when she and White are married?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) None.

4. When does White begin living with three other Cornell graduates?
(a) November, 1925.
(b) September, 1924.
(c) November, 1926.
(d) September, 1927.

5. What phrase does White use to describe the office he and James Thurber share?
(a) A magnified coatroom.
(b) A sort of elongated closet.
(c) A sort of expanded cubicle.
(d) An exaggerated spare room.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After marrying a Wall Street broker, what example of alliteration did White's sister's name become?

3. For which newspaper is White a campus reporter?

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

5. Where were E.B. White's parents born?

(see the answer key)

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