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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. When do White and Katharine retire from the New Yorker?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1956.

2. What does White first submit to the New Yorker?
(a) Short items and poetry.
(b) Short items, long columns, and poetry.
(c) Long columns and poetry.
(d) Long columns and short items.

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

4. What is the main reason why White is still at the New Yorker in 1956?
(a) Because of the income he is generating.
(b) Because of the death of Gus Lobrano.
(c) Because Katharine is there.
(d) Because he enjoys the work.

5. When does White write a letter to his stepson, Roger, and his wife, Carol?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1969.

Short Answer Questions

1. What intrigued White about the girls in high school?

2. Which one of the following is not a type of Hollywood tree that White includes in his letter to Stanley?

3. How does White describe Adolph Ochs, publisher of the New York Times?

4. What poet does White parody in a December, 1918 letter to his mother?

5. Who was White's favorite sibling?

(see the answer key)

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