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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. The first edition of One Man's Meat was published in what year?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1942.

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

3. When was "Sabbath Morn" written?
(a) July, 1940.
(b) September, 1939.
(c) August, 1941.
(d) February, 1939.

4. What ride did White watch people waiting in line for at the fair in "Security"?
(a) The Ferris wheel.
(b) The twister.
(c) The roller coaster.
(d) The hay ride.

5. On what highway did White write he was doing fifty on in "Walden"?
(a) Highway 61.
(b) Country Road H.
(c) Route 62.
(d) Route 66.

Short Answer Questions

1. White wrote in "Children's Book's" that he'd shared his armchair with what book for the past 3 weeks?

2. What book about a bee did White cite in "Children's Books"?

3. Where had White's son attended a "medium-priced private institution" in "Education"?

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

5. 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"?

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