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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through E.B. White, a Biography, 1982-1985.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of sound do the suggested songs for "Charlotte's Web" have in White's opinion?
(a) Scottish.
(b) English.
(c) Russian.
(d) Irish.

2. What book does White negotiate the movie rights for between 1966 and 1970?
(a) "The Trumpet of the Swan".
(b) "Charlotte's Web".
(c) "Stuart Little".
(d) "Here is New York".

3. What issue should people be concerned about, according to White in a 1947 letter to John Wentworth?
(a) Ownership in fewer hands.
(b) The ties between businesses and newspapers.
(c) The lack of objectivity in newspapers.
(d) The misunderstanding of the country's founding principles.

4. When does White write to his agent about his reservations of a Czech producer's plans for a movie about "Charlotte's Web"?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1972.

5. What is the annual limitation income that White agrees to for tax purposes?
(a) Seventy five hundred dollars.
(b) Ten thousand dollars.
(c) Eighty five hundred dollars.
(d) Twenty thousand dollars.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What reason does White give his agent for putting the book, Charlotte's Web, aside for a while?

3. With which faculty member(s) does White eventually write "The Elements of Style"?

4. Following the death of Katharine's father, where do the Whites vacation?

5. How much bed rest does Katharine have while recovering from an illness after the birth of their son?

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