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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Page 29-58.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was strange about the terminology White used when talking about what he refused to do to this book before publication?
(a) He should have known it would be published in a magazine first.
(b) He should have said, 'up to date'.
(c) The names were already altered.
(d) The writer can't make geographical changes.

2. What amazes White about all the different kinds of people that live in New York?
(a) They all exist.
(b) They live together.
(c) They do not help one another.
(d) They do not leave the city.

3. What does White say called him to the city?
(a) Glittering star lights.
(b) His hopes and dreams.
(c) Past writing successes.
(d) The lights of the city.

4. What kind of tubes take messages from one place to another?
(a) Vacuum.
(b) Mail Carriers.
(c) Steel.
(d) Pneumatic.

5. What did White do before attending college?
(a) Served in the army.
(b) Worked for his father.
(c) Lived in New York.
(d) Fulfilled an apprenticeship.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was White's book about the city so different from the reality?

2. What does White say this book will really be?

3. Where did White see a celebrity one time in New York?

4. What kind of business has fewer open offices than White remembers?

5. Why does White say New York is not as unique anymore?

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