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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Week in April, Movies, A Boston Terrier, The World of Tomorrow and Walden.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did White say grew in the patch close to the farm in "Salt Water Farm"?
(a) Blackberries.
(b) Strawberries.
(c) Rhubarb.
(d) Blueberries.

2. White wrote in "Walden" that he had often gone a mile out of his way to avoid a place of what interest?
(a) Historical.
(b) Significant.
(c) Musical.
(d) No.

3. What was the name of E. B. White's wife?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Katharine.
(c) Christina.
(d) Elizabeth.

4. Three of the pieces in One Man's Meat were originally published in what magazine?
(a) Harper's Bazaar.
(b) New York Magazine.
(c) Literary Monthly.
(d) The New Yorker.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children's books did White say his wife received in the past season in "Children's Books"?

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

3. In the second edition of One Man's Meat, the book was expanded to include writings of E. B. White's for which magazine?

4. When was "Removal" written?

5. What day of the week did White begin "A Week in April"?

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