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

2. Where has White's brother, Stanley, moved to in order to work as a landscape architect?
(a) Nevada.
(b) Texas.
(c) Florida.
(d) California.

3. Where does White first notice the New Yorker magazine?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) Grand Central Station.
(c) The library.
(d) Central Park.

4. Which of the following is not included in the list of purchases White reports to his parents in a letter?
(a) Bread for ten cents.
(b) A shirt for ninety cents.
(c) Milk for twenty cents.
(d) Boots for five dollars and fifty cents.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long after the wedding do White and Katharine return to their jobs?

2. How many children did White's parents have?

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

4. When does White marry Katharine Angell?

5. What was White's grandfather well known for?

(see the answer key)

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