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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Hot Weather, Camp Meeting, Second World War, First World War and Poetry.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When had White registered for the draft when he became eligible in "First World War"?
(a) January, 1919.
(b) February, 1919.
(c) August, 1918.
(d) September, 1918.

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?
(a) Putz.
(b) Goy.
(c) Chutzpah.
(d) Kibitzer.

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

4. When did World War I end?
(a) March, 1919.
(b) November, 1918.
(c) December, 1918.
(d) January, 1919.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who gave White a baby seagull in "Hot Weather"?

4. What did White write made the dogs uneasy in the beginning of "A Week in April"?

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

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