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

2. White wrote that the threat of what was "always in the pit of your stomach" in "Salt Water Farm"?
(a) Fog.
(b) Rain.
(c) Death.
(d) Snow.

3. On what highway did White write he was doing fifty on in "Walden"?
(a) Route 62.
(b) Route 66.
(c) Highway 61.
(d) Country Road H.

4. What did White write made the dogs uneasy in the beginning of "A Week in April"?
(a) The thunder.
(b) The rain.
(c) The fog.
(d) A full moon.

5. In "Hot Weather," White wrote of beaches with bathhouses that smelled like what?
(a) Dead fish.
(b) Garbage cans.
(c) Sour towels.
(d) Unwashed feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was "Salt Water Farm" written?

2. When was "Lime" written?

3. White claimed to be fascinated by the anatomy of what in "Motor Cars"?

4. When was "Walden" written?

5. "The Flocks We Watch by Night" begins on the "afternoon of the day after the first" what?

(see the answer key)

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