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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much is White paid for his column, "One Man's Meat", for Harper's Magazine?
(a) Five hundred dollars per month.
(b) Five hundred dollars per week.
(c) Three hundred dollars per week.
(d) Three hundred dollars per month.

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

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

4. How does White describe himself as a child?
(a) Fretful, but not nervous.
(b) Neither nervous nor fretful.
(c) Nervous, but not fretful.
(d) Nervous and fretful.

5. For which newspaper is White a campus reporter?
(a) Cornell Daily Sun.
(b) Cornell Post.
(c) Cornell Daily News.
(d) Cornell Times.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the New York Herald Tribune refer to White in their response to his criticism?

2. How does White categorize his debate with the New York Herald Tribune?

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

4. Which organization's offer of membership does White decline?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where were White's parents from and what is their background?

2. What impulsive decision does White write to Katharine about in May, 1937?

3. What happens during White's early New York Times interview?

4. What description does White provide of his wedding?

5. How does White gain confidence as a writer while in college, and what acquaintances does he make there?

6. What does White write about his brother, Stanley, and his sister, Lillian?

7. How does White return to the New Yorker and what embarrassing situation does he encounter there?

8. Why does Katharine hesitate before agreeing to marry White?

9. How does White begin writing for the New Yorker, and what does he do once his position becomes permanent?

10. Why does White write to Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and the director of the Bronx Zoo respectively?

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