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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Motor Cars, Maine Speech, Lime, Dog Training and The Wave of the Future.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What magazine did White acknowledge he should read rather than The Rural New Yorker in "Farm Paper"?
(a) The New England Homestead.
(b) Popular Mechanics.
(c) John Deere Monthly.
(d) Mother Earth News.

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

3. When was "Salt Water Farm" written?
(a) August, 1940.
(b) July, 1939.
(c) September, 1939.
(d) January, 1939.

4. When was "Second World War" written?
(a) October, 1939.
(b) August, 1938.
(c) December, 1939.
(d) September, 1939.

5. What did White claim people from Maine said in place of "all" in "Maine Speech"?
(a) The whole of.
(b) Every last section.
(c) Every piece.
(d) The entire lot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What governmental program sponsored the limestone donations in "Lime"?

2. In the end of "The Flocks We Watch by Night" White and his neighbor ended up at the neighbor's house doing what?

3. In "Hot Weather," White wrote of beaches with bathhouses that smelled like what?

4. Who did White accompany on a day of lobster fishing in "Second World War"?

5. The speaker in "Camp Meeting" spoke about his financial plan for taking care of who in the United States?

(see the answer key)

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