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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Winter Diary, On a Florida Key, The Trailer Park, Spring and My Day.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did White have lunch on Tuesday in "A Winter Diary," describing it as "booths and pine paneling and a voice singing 'I can bear the bells of Monterey"?
(a) The taproom.
(b) At a neighbors house.
(c) In a barn.
(d) At home.

2. White wrote that he was writing on the fourth day of what battle in "Compost"?
(a) The Battle of France.
(b) The Battle of Germany.
(c) The Battle of Berlin.
(d) The Battle of Normandy.

3. What basket did E. B. White decide was unnecessary on his Maine desk in "Incoming Basket"?
(a) Temporary.
(b) Out.
(c) Partial.
(d) Incoming.

4. What did White write his friend had around his land in "Poetry"?
(a) Rocks.
(b) Men with guns.
(c) An electric fence.
(d) A white picket fence.

5. What did White write was closely associated with evening and day's end in "Hot Weather"?
(a) Food.
(b) Wine.
(c) Sunsets.
(d) Music.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did White go after breakfast on Tuesday in "A Winter Diary"?

2. What did White claim was "painfully unimaginative in its attempt to perpetuate a faith that has been gutted by so many fires"?

3. The campground White described in "Camp Meeting" was in a clump of woods near what?

4. Three of the pieces in One Man's Meat were originally published in what magazine?

5. Why did White's neighbor come to get one of his ewes in "The Flocks We Watch by Night"?

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