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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 ride did White watch people waiting in line for at the fair in "Security"?
(a) The roller coaster.
(b) The Ferris wheel.
(c) The hay ride.
(d) The twister.

2. In what grade was White's son in "Education"?
(a) Fourth.
(b) Second.
(c) Third.
(d) First.

3. What large and unattractive item did White write "came to be a sort of symbol of what I was trying to escape from" in "Removal"?
(a) A bookshelf.
(b) A chest.
(c) A mirror.
(d) An armoir.

4. Who gave White a baby seagull in "Hot Weather"?
(a) Mr. Jameson.
(b) Ms. Jameson.
(c) Mr. Dameron.
(d) Mrs. Dameron.

5. When was "Second World War" written?
(a) August, 1938.
(b) December, 1939.
(c) September, 1939.
(d) October, 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Yiddish word did E. B. White use in "Removal" that means a person who jokes, chitchats, or makes wisecracks while others are trying to work or to discuss something seriously?

2. With whom did E. B. White sympathize in sharing hay fever in "The Summer Catarrh"?

3. What movie did White cite in which Bette Davis plays a woman who relinquishes her wealth to move to the country to be with her physician husband in "Movies"?

4. In "Hot Weather," White wrote of beaches with bathhouses that smelled like what?

5. What initial did White refer to his neighbor who had died in "A Week in April"?

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