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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. Where is Katharine's father a successful businessman?
(a) New England.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) New York.
(d) Boston.

2. Which movie character does White write to his brother, Stanley, about in 1937?
(a) Captain Courageous.
(b) Ziegfeld.
(c) Tarzan.
(d) Dick Tracy.

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

4. Where does White first notice the New Yorker magazine?
(a) Grand Central Station.
(b) Central Park.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) The library.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When is White's son, Joel, born?

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

4. How many musical instruments did White learn to play?

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

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