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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Most Beautiful Decision, 1929-1930.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Katharine and White communicate while at work?
(a) During office breaks.
(b) Interoffice memos.
(c) Messages delivered by other people.
(d) The office intercom.

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

3. Where does White travel to after leaving Seattle in 1923?
(a) Alaska.
(b) Oklahoma.
(c) Texas.
(d) Antarctica.

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

5. Where do a majority of White's columns appear in the Seattle Times?
(a) The leisure section.
(b) The front page.
(c) The classified section.
(d) The last page.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What job does Katharine Angell, White's future wife, have with the New Yorker when he begins writing there?

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

4. How does White describe his time with the New Yorker?

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

(see the answer key)

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