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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. Where in Maine did E. B. White live while writing One Man's Meat?
(a) North Brooklin.
(b) Portland.
(c) Millinocket.
(d) Bangor.

2. When was "The Flocks We Watch by Night" written?
(a) June, 1940.
(b) October, 1938.
(c) November, 1939.
(d) March, 1938.

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) An armoir.
(b) A bookshelf.
(c) A chest.
(d) A mirror.

4. When was "Maine Speech" written?
(a) March, 1940.
(b) October, 1940.
(c) June, 1940.
(d) November, 1939.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was frantically pacing while White and his neighbor tried to corner the sheep in "The Flocks We Watch by Night"?

2. What magazine did White cite in describing the World's Fair Borden Exhibit in "Getting Ready for a Cow"?

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

4. White wrote of driving past a woman in her yard using what in "Walden"?

5. The first edition of One Man's Meat was published in what year?

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