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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Children's Books, Progress and Change, Salt Water Farm, Sabbath Morn and Education.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Clear Days" what Disney film did White discuss?
(a) Cinderella.
(b) Fantasia.
(c) Sleeping Beauty.
(d) Bambi.

2. Where in Maine did E. B. White live while writing One Man's Meat?
(a) Bangor.
(b) North Brooklin.
(c) Portland.
(d) Millinocket.

3. What adjective did White use to describe the schoolteacher's tasks in "Education"?
(a) Simple.
(b) Augean.
(c) Pythagorean.
(d) Herculean.

4. In what year was E. B. White's Forward to One Man's Meat written?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1944.

5. What train line in New York did White discover was being demolished in "Progress and Change"?
(a) The A Train.
(b) The G Train.
(c) Sixth Avenue El.
(d) The 14th Street El.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was E. B. White born?

2. What grew by the potatoes below the barn in "Salt Water Farm"?

3. What large and unattractive item did White write "came to be a sort of symbol of what I was trying to escape from" in "Removal"?

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

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

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