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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. 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"?
(a) "Jezebel."
(b) "Kid Galahad."
(c) "Dark Victory."
(d) "Juarez."

2. What crop did White claim had done well there in "Fall" that year?
(a) Rhubarb.
(b) Pumpkins.
(c) Corn.
(d) Potatoes.

3. To whom did White write an imaginary letter in "Walden"?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) Henry David Thoreau.
(c) Eugene Gladstone O'Neill.
(d) Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin.

4. White wrote that a gentleman had come to his house to adjust what the other day in "Fall"?
(a) A plow.
(b) A rifle sight.
(c) A compass.
(d) Eyeglasses.

5. When was "Fall" written?
(a) September, 1941.
(b) August, 1940.
(c) October, 1941.
(d) November, 1940.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the beginning of "A Shepherd's Life," White wrote "This is a day of 'high winds and _______ promises.

2. How many births were there in the town the last year in "Fall"?

3. What did E. B. White claim there was a lot of in him, which were not joiners in "Compost"?

4. What did White write made the dogs uneasy in the beginning of "A Week in April"?

5. White wrote that he was writing on the fourth day of what battle in "Compost"?

(see the answer key)

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