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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. Three of the pieces in One Man's Meat were originally published in what magazine?
(a) Harper's Bazaar.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) Literary Monthly.
(d) New York Magazine.

2. 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"?
(a) "Kid Galahad."
(b) "Jezebel."
(c) "Juarez."
(d) "Dark Victory."

3. When was "The Flocks We Watch by Night" written?
(a) November, 1939.
(b) June, 1940.
(c) March, 1938.
(d) October, 1938.

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

5. When was "Report" written?
(a) November, 1939.
(b) December, 1939.
(c) February, 1940.
(d) March, 1940.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. 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"?

5. What was the name of E. B. White's wife?

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