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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. How many deaths were in the town the last year in "Fall"?
(a) 0.
(b) 7.
(c) 8.
(d) 2.

2. What day of the week did White begin "A Week in April"?
(a) Wednesday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Tuesday.
(d) Saturday.

3. When was "Compost" written?
(a) July, 1940.
(b) September, 1940.
(c) April, 1940.
(d) June, 1940.

4. What book did White claim had been so successful because it is so forthright without restrictions in "Compost"?
(a) The Constitution.
(b) The Oxford English Dictionary.
(c) Mein Kampf.
(d) The Bible.

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

Short Answer 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"?

2. What advertisement did White discuss in "A Boston Terrier"?

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

4. How much did membership cost White to join the society in "Compost"?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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