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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through One Man's Meat: 1937-1941.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What state did White and his family travel to in August?
(a) Maine.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Connecticut.

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

3. What does White suggest the Department of Corrections at the New Yorker should be changed to in 1935?
(a) "Corrected We Stand".
(b) "Our Standing Corrections".
(c) "All Standing Corrections".
(d) "We Stand Corrected".

4. How long after the wedding do White and Katharine return to their jobs?
(a) Two weeks later.
(b) Two days later.
(c) The next week.
(d) The next day.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Writing under a nom de plume, what does White express concern over?

2. Where does White travel to after disappearing from the New Yorker?

3. With which faculty member(s) does White eventually write "The Elements of Style"?

4. What year(s) does White write letters about Katharine's miscarriage and his mother's passing?

5. What job does White have while living with his parents in New York?

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