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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 grew by the potatoes below the barn in "Salt Water Farm"?
(a) Mustard seed.
(b) Asparagus.
(c) Beets.
(d) Strawberries.

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

3. White wrote in "Children's Book's" that he'd shared his armchair with what book for the past 3 weeks?
(a) Bumblebuzz.
(b) Boyhood Adventures of Our Presidents.
(c) Huckleberry Finn.
(d) The Cat from Chicago.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What train line in New York did White discover was being demolished in "Progress and Change"?

3. In what grade was White's son in "Education"?

4. When was "Sabbath Morn" written?

5. In "Clear Days" what Disney film did White discuss?

(see the answer key)

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