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

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) Musical.
(c) Significant.
(d) No.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom did White write an imaginary letter in "Walden"?

3. When was "Walden" written?

4. How many children did E. B. White have?

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

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