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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Turtle Bay, 1950-1951.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does White tell Thurber he would like to ask President Roosevelt?
(a) "What's the Joke?"
(b) "What's with the Laughter?"
(c) "Where's the Humor?"
(d) "What's So Funny?"

2. Which Kentucky newspaper publishes White's sonnet about a race's winning horse?
(a) The Lexington Sun.
(b) The Louisville Times.
(c) The Lexington Gazette.
(d) The Louisville Herald.

3. What poet does White parody in a December, 1918 letter to his mother?
(a) T.S. Eliot.
(b) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) Robert Browning.

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

5. Based on White's input to a book on the New Yorker, from which magazines was Ross trying to make the New Yorker different?
(a) Life.
(b) Life and Harper's.
(c) Neither Life nor Harper's.
(d) Harper's.

Short Answer Questions

1. For which newspaper is White a campus reporter?

2. What does White buy for Katharine with the money from the published story, The Lady is Cold?

3. In another office memo, for which James Thurber story does White offer his comments?

4. What are the sales of White's book, Stuart Little, in 1946?

5. Which John Steinbeck book was the result of an assignment for Holiday magazine that White could not complete?

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