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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Trumpet of the Swan, 1966-1970.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does White tell Thurber he would like to ask President Roosevelt?
(a) "What's with the Laughter?"
(b) "Where's the Humor?"
(c) "What's So Funny?"
(d) "What's the Joke?"

2. Where were E.B. White's parents born?
(a) New York, NY.
(b) Mount Vernon, NY.
(c) Queens, NY.
(d) Brooklyn, NY.

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

4. What does White caution Thurber about his story in the memo?
(a) Excluding an explanation of the key points of the story.
(b) Explaining why the book should be read.
(c) Excluding an explanation of how the story compares to others.
(d) Explaining what the book is and is not.

5. What comparison does White use to illustrate his opinion of the draft in a 1942 letter to Harold Ross?
(a) The medical profession.
(b) The labor unions.
(c) The entertainment industry.
(d) The legal profession.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does White state in the official "letter from the author" that a child receives when writing to him?

3. Based on White's input to a book on the New Yorker, from which magazines was Ross trying to make the New Yorker different?

4. Why is Katharine hospitalized in 1952?

5. At what age did White begin to develop his writing style?

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