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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Hot Weather, Camp Meeting, Second World War, First World War and Poetry.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What adjective did White use to describe the schoolteacher's tasks in "Education"?
(a) Augean.
(b) Herculean.
(c) Simple.
(d) Pythagorean.

2. White wrote in "Children's Book's" that he'd shared his armchair with what book for the past 3 weeks?
(a) Bumblebuzz.
(b) The Cat from Chicago.
(c) Boyhood Adventures of Our Presidents.
(d) Huckleberry Finn.

3. What was the name of E. B. White's wife?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Katharine.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Christina.

4. To whom did White write an imaginary letter in "Walden"?
(a) Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) Eugene Gladstone O'Neill.
(d) Henry David Thoreau.

5. When was "Sabbath Morn" written?
(a) February, 1939.
(b) July, 1940.
(c) September, 1939.
(d) August, 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Clear Days" what Disney film did White discuss?

2. How much money had White calculated it cost him to maintain one turkey on his farm in "Security"?

3. White wrote that the threat of what was "always in the pit of your stomach" in "Salt Water Farm"?

4. Who had a campground in the next county in "Camp Meeting"?

5. What grew by the potatoes below the barn in "Salt Water Farm"?

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