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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Getting Ready for a Cow, Bond Rally, A Week in November, Control and Cold Weather.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. White wrote in "Motor Cars" that the same autumn which saw the abandonment of the window crank and the adoption of the push button saw also the registration of how many young men of fighting age?
(a) 230 million.
(b) 1 million.
(c) 16 million.
(d) 120 million.

2. In "Clear Days" what Disney film did White discuss?
(a) Sleeping Beauty.
(b) Bambi.
(c) Cinderella.
(d) Fantasia.

3. "Aunt Poo" referred to whose aunt?
(a) E. B. White's.
(b) Katharine's.
(c) Charles'.
(d) Jack's.

4. When was "Walden" written?
(a) September, 1940.
(b) April, 1939.
(c) August, 1941.
(d) June, 1939.

5. How many pounds of cod and haddock had White caught in "Report"?
(a) 234.
(b) 175.
(c) 200.
(d) 74.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What train line in New York did White discover was being demolished in "Progress and Change"?

3. When was "Sabbath Morn" written?

4. In "Book Learning," White wrote that what, "however sound in principle, often seems strangely unrelated to, and unaware of, the vital, grueling job of making a living by farming"?

5. In what year did White's father rent a cabin on a lake in Maine and take his family there for the month of August in "Once More to the Lake"?

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