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

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

3. White wrote of driving past a woman in her yard using what in "Walden"?
(a) A lawnmower.
(b) A fishing rod.
(c) A shovel.
(d) A shotgun.

4. What kind of closet did White write he was building in "Removal"?
(a) Fireproof.
(b) Mothproof.
(c) Mouseproof.
(d) Moldproof.

5. What did White write grew beyond in the pasture "amid juniper and granite and lambkill" in "Salt Water Farm"?
(a) Juniper berries.
(b) Wild strawberries.
(c) Asparagus.
(d) Potatoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What large and unattractive item did White write "came to be a sort of symbol of what I was trying to escape from" in "Removal"?

2. When was "Removal" written?

3. Where in Maine did E. B. White live while writing One Man's Meat?

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

5. What basket did E. B. White decide was unnecessary on his Maine desk in "Incoming Basket"?

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