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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The War Years: 1942-1945.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not included in the list of purchases White reports to his parents in a letter?
(a) Boots for five dollars and fifty cents.
(b) Milk for twenty cents.
(c) Bread for ten cents.
(d) A shirt for ninety cents.

2. How does White describe his time with the New Yorker?
(a) Chaotic.
(b) Organized.
(c) Illogical.
(d) Logical.

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

4. Where does White travel to after disappearing from the New Yorker?
(a) Vermont.
(b) Maine.
(c) Rhode Island.
(d) Connecticut.

5. How does White describe himself as a child?
(a) Neither nervous nor fretful.
(b) Nervous and fretful.
(c) Fretful, but not nervous.
(d) Nervous, but not fretful.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Katharine and White communicate while at work?

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

3. What question does White tell Thurber he would like to ask President Roosevelt?

4. How many years do White and Katharine spend in Greenwich Village?

5. Where does White wait for Alice during a missed opportunity to see her?

(see the answer key)

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