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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. When was "Fall" written?
(a) November, 1940.
(b) September, 1941.
(c) August, 1940.
(d) October, 1941.

2. What did White write was a popular word with boys in "Maine Speech"?
(a) Baster.
(b) Luster.
(c) Jester.
(d) Mister.

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

4. What did White claim was "painfully unimaginative in its attempt to perpetuate a faith that has been gutted by so many fires"?
(a) Art.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Church.
(d) Science.

5. Where did White have lunch on Tuesday in "A Winter Diary," describing it as "booths and pine paneling and a voice singing 'I can bear the bells of Monterey"?
(a) The taproom.
(b) In a barn.
(c) At home.
(d) At a neighbors house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color were the walls painted in White's cottage in "On a Florida Key"?

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

3. "A Winter Diary" was written when?

4. When was "Removal" written?

5. In "Walden," White wrote, "I have never knelt at the grave of a philosopher nor placed wreaths on" what?

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