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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. White wrote that the threat of what was "always in the pit of your stomach" in "Salt Water Farm"?
(a) Snow.
(b) Death.
(c) Fog.
(d) Rain.

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

3. The campground White described in "Camp Meeting" was in a clump of woods near what?
(a) Bangor.
(b) Waterville.
(c) Oakland.
(d) East Machias.

4. What did White claim was "painfully unimaginative in its attempt to perpetuate a faith that has been gutted by so many fires"?
(a) Church.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Art.
(d) Science.

5. In what grade was White's son in "Education"?
(a) Fourth.
(b) Third.
(c) Second.
(d) First.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event had White visited in "The World of Tomorrow"?

2. What did White write was closely associated with evening and day's end in "Hot Weather"?

3. What grew by the potatoes below the barn in "Salt Water Farm"?

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

5. What did White see hunting in a field as he drove his son to school in "Second World War"?

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