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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Once More to the Lake, Fall, Memorandum, Coon Hunt and Intimations.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. White wrote in "Sanitation," "The good world will be impossible to achieve until parents quit teaching their children about" what?
(a) Radicalism.
(b) Selfishness.
(c) Gluttony.
(d) Materialism.

2. What did White have to use to cure ringworm as a child in "Once More to the Lake"?
(a) Birch bark.
(b) Blueberry juice.
(c) White moss.
(d) Pond's Extract.

3. How many young men did White say had gone into the service from his town in "Fall"?
(a) 9.
(b) 34.
(c) 12.
(d) 18.

4. What was the name of the book given to White in "The Practical Farmer"?
(a) Practical Farming for Beginners.
(b) To Catch a Lobster.
(c) Cattle Production.
(d) How to Raise Chickens.

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"?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1899.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did White claim had been able to succeed because he was able to see the world as a whole and was not hampered by any limiting thoughts?

2. White wrote in "Walden" that he had often gone a mile out of his way to avoid a place of what interest?

3. Who gave White the book on farming in "The Practical Farmer"?

4. In "Walden," White wrote, "I have never knelt at the grave of a philosopher nor placed wreaths on" what?

5. On what highway did White write he was doing fifty on in "Walden"?

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