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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 car do White and Howard Cushman use to travel around the country?
(a) Studebaker.
(b) Model T Roadster.
(c) Oldsmobile.
(d) Mercer Raceabout.

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

3. What are the sales of White's book, Stuart Little, in 1946?
(a) Over 150,000.
(b) Over 50,000.
(c) Over 100,000.
(d) Over 20,000.

4. What does White encourage a college student to get in order to inspire her to write?
(a) A wide assortment of pens.
(b) A dictionary.
(c) An electric typewriter.
(d) A solid supply of paper.

5. With which faculty member(s) does White eventually write "The Elements of Style"?
(a) Bristow Adams and William Strunk.
(b) William Strunk.
(c) Martin Sampson.
(d) Bristow Adams and Martin Sampson.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much are White and Cushman offered by the Buffalo Times for their daily column?

3. Which of the following is not included in the list of purchases White reports to his parents in a letter?

4. How does White describe Adolph Ochs, publisher of the New York Times?

5. Writing under a nom de plume, what does White express concern over?

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