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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through One Man's Meat: 1937-1941.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much is White paid for his column, "One Man's Meat", for Harper's Magazine?
(a) Three hundred dollars per week.
(b) Three hundred dollars per month.
(c) Five hundred dollars per month.
(d) Five hundred dollars per week.

2. What state did White and his family travel to in August?
(a) Maine.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) New Jersey.

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

4. For which newspaper is White a campus reporter?
(a) Cornell Times.
(b) Cornell Daily News.
(c) Cornell Post.
(d) Cornell Daily Sun.

5. How many musical instruments did White learn to play?
(a) None.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does White describe the perception of him at the New Yorker office in July, 1931?

3. Where were E.B. White's parents born?

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

5. How long does White live with his parents after returning from his world travels?

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