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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. 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) Putz.
(b) Chutzpah.
(c) Kibitzer.
(d) Goy.

2. When was Charlotte's Web published?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1955.

3. What did White write grew beyond in the pasture "amid juniper and granite and lambkill" in "Salt Water Farm"?
(a) Asparagus.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Juniper berries.
(d) Wild strawberries.

4. With whom did E. B. White sympathize in sharing hay fever in "The Summer Catarrh"?
(a) John Wilmore.
(b) Alexander Payne.
(c) Daniel Webster.
(d) George Washington.

5. What book about a bee did White cite in "Children's Books"?
(a) Mr. Bee.
(b) Bumble Bumble Buzz.
(c) James the Bee.
(d) Bumblebuzz.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money had White calculated it cost him to maintain one turkey on his farm in "Security"?

2. When was "Salt Water Farm" written?

3. What kind of closet did White write he was building in "Removal"?

4. What did White claim was "painfully unimaginative in its attempt to perpetuate a faith that has been gutted by so many fires"?

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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