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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What intrigued White about the girls in high school?
(a) The makeup they wore.
(b) Their silk stockings.
(c) The way they wore their hair.
(d) Their dresses.

2. Who was White's favorite sibling?
(a) Marion.
(b) Stanley.
(c) Lillian.
(d) Clara.

3. What job does Katharine Angell, White's future wife, have with the New Yorker when he begins writing there?
(a) Features editor.
(b) Fiction editor.
(c) Poetry editor.
(d) News editor.

4. What is on the cover of the first New Yorker magazine that White sees?
(a) Dancers.
(b) The New York City skyline.
(c) Eustace Tilley.
(d) A queen.

5. How many children does Katharine have when she and White are married?
(a) Two.
(b) None.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

6. Where does White wait for Alice during a missed opportunity to see her?
(a) A classroom.
(b) A river.
(c) A tree.
(d) A bridge.

7. What activities is White's son enjoying at Cornell?
(a) Football and naval architecture.
(b) Football and archery.
(c) Soccer and naval architecture.
(d) Soccer and archery.

8. Where is the Whites' farm located?
(a) Brooklin, ME.
(b) Sedgwick, ME.
(c) Sunshine, ME.
(d) Naskeag, ME.

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

10. Which movie character does White write to his brother, Stanley, about in 1937?
(a) Ziegfeld.
(b) Captain Courageous.
(c) Tarzan.
(d) Dick Tracy.

11. How does White refer to his work in Washington in a March 2, 1942 letter to John Fleming?
(a) An impossible task.
(b) A painful, but important task.
(c) A nearly-impossible task.
(d) A necessary and rewarding task.

12. When does White resign from writing for Harper's magazine?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1945.

13. Where is Katharine's father a successful businessman?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) New England.
(c) New York.
(d) Boston.

14. Which Supreme Court Justice does White reference in his letters during his time in Washington?
(a) Tom C. Clark.
(b) Felix Frankfurter.
(c) William O. Douglas.
(d) Frank Murphy.

15. Writing under a nom de plume, what does White express concern over?
(a) The changes in the design of sailing boats.
(b) The disappearance of the American touring car.
(c) The excessive number of movie critics.
(d) The lack of quality news stories.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Katharine travel to in order to get her divorce before marrying White?

2. How many freedoms are included in the pamphlet that the Office of Facts and Figures hires White to work on in 1941?

3. What is the mood of White's January 8, 1938 letter to James Thurber?

4. When does White begin living with three other Cornell graduates?

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

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