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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 movie did White cite in which Bette Davis plays a woman who relinquishes her wealth to move to the country to be with her physician husband in "Movies"?
(a) "Dark Victory."
(b) "Jezebel."
(c) "Juarez."
(d) "Kid Galahad."

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

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

4. How many children did E. B. White have?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

5. How many children's books did White say his wife received in the past season in "Children's Books"?
(a) 200.
(b) 300.
(c) 100.
(d) 140.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was E. B. White born?

2. 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?

3. White wrote of driving past a woman in her yard using what in "Walden"?

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

5. Where had White taken a trip in "Walden"?

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