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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Flocks We Watch by Night, Report, Fro-Joy, Farm Paper and Town Meeting.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. White wrote that the sound of what music "right after breakfast gives the summer day a loose, footless feeling" in "Hot Weather"?
(a) Flute.
(b) Tuba.
(c) Harp.
(d) Victrola.

2. How many Toulouse geese did White have in "Report"?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 14.

3. To whom did White write an imaginary letter in "Walden"?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin.
(c) Eugene Gladstone O'Neill.
(d) Henry David Thoreau.

4. Where was the junk shop that E. B. White went to get rid of a piece of furniture in "Removal"?
(a) 14th Street.
(b) 2nd Avenue.
(c) 3rd Avenue.
(d) 5th Avenue.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. White wrote in "Walden" that he had often gone a mile out of his way to avoid a place of what interest?

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

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

4. What is the last of the animals White listed having in "Report"?

5. Why did White's neighbor come to get one of his ewes in "The Flocks We Watch by Night"?

(see the answer key)

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