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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. What infirmity did the Boston terrier White had once owned have in "A Boston Terrier"?
(a) Missing one leg.
(b) No bladder control.
(c) Blind in one eye.
(d) Deaf in one ear.

2. Where did E. B. White move from to Maine?
(a) Maryland.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) New York.
(d) Rhode Island.

3. Who had a campground in the next county in "Camp Meeting"?
(a) The Catholics.
(b) The Omish.
(c) The Methodists.
(d) The Jewish.

4. What did White say grew in the patch close to the farm in "Salt Water Farm"?
(a) Rhubarb.
(b) Strawberries.
(c) Blueberries.
(d) Blackberries.

5. The speaker in "Camp Meeting" spoke about his financial plan for taking care of who in the United States?
(a) The poor.
(b) The unemployed.
(c) The disabled.
(d) The elderly.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Hot Weather," White wrote of beaches with bathhouses that smelled like what?

2. Who did White go to hear speak at the campground in "Camp Meeting"?

3. 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"?

4. The first edition of One Man's Meat was published in what year?

5. In "Walden," White wrote, "I have never knelt at the grave of a philosopher nor placed wreaths on" what?

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