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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. In what grade was White's son in "Education"?
(a) Third.
(b) First.
(c) Fourth.
(d) Second.

2. What book did White receive in the story "Dog Training"?
(a) A Puppy's Education.
(b) Hounds of Glory.
(c) Teach that Mutt.
(d) Dog Training Made Easy.

3. How many dozen eggs, brown-shelled did White claim to have produced in the past year in "Report"?
(a) 482.
(b) 149.
(c) 905.
(d) 347.

4. When was "Hot Weather" written?
(a) September, 1938.
(b) August, 1938.
(c) July, 1939.
(d) June, 1939.

5. What did White write he would rather train to balance an Indian club "than induce a dachshund to heed my slightest command" in "Dog Training"?
(a) A hyena
(b) A water buffalo.
(c) A zebra.
(d) A lion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word is used in place of "lift" in "Maine Speech"?

2. White wrote in "Motor Cars" that the "motor car is, more than any other object, the expression of the" what?

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

4. When had White registered for the draft when he became eligible in "First World War"?

5. Why did White's neighbor come to get one of his ewes in "The Flocks We Watch by Night"?

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