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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Songbirds, Questionnaire, Aunt Poo, Book Learning and Morningtime and Eveningtime.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first edition of One Man's Meat was published in what year?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1940.

2. When was "Report" written?
(a) November, 1939.
(b) December, 1939.
(c) March, 1940.
(d) February, 1940.

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

4. Who did White go to hear speak at the campground in "Camp Meeting"?
(a) Dr. Francis E. Townsend.
(b) Dr. Franklin. T. Ellis.
(c) Dr. Edward. T. Fairchild.
(d) Dr. Terrance F. Edwards.

5. What Yiddish word did E. B. White use in "Removal" that means a person who jokes, chitchats, or makes wisecracks while others are trying to work or to discuss something seriously?
(a) Goy.
(b) Putz.
(c) Kibitzer.
(d) Chutzpah.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. White wrote in "A Shepherd's Life" that his goose would lay her what egg today?

3. What did White write grew beyond in the pasture "amid juniper and granite and lambkill" in "Salt Water Farm"?

4. Where was the junk shop that E. B. White went to get rid of a piece of furniture in "Removal"?

5. White wrote that he was working on a picture from what book in "A Winter Diary"?

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