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

2. What year does White create the cartoon featuring a caption that references the "most beautiful decision" of his life?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1929.

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

4. In a newsbreak report to Harold Ross, how long does it take White to locate the paste?
(a) Six minutes.
(b) Four minutes.
(c) Eight minutes.
(d) Two minutes.

5. What section of the American freedoms pamphlet is White originally hired to write, before being asked to rewrite the entire document?
(a) The section on the Pursuit of Happiness.
(b) The section on the Right to Bear Arms.
(c) The section on Freedom of Speech.
(d) The section on Freedom of the Press.

Short Answer Questions

1. For which newspaper is White a campus reporter?

2. Which movie character does White write to his brother, Stanley, about in 1937?

3. What does White buy for Katharine with the money from the published story, The Lady is Cold?

4. Who was White's favorite sibling?

5. When does White marry Katharine Angell?

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