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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Winter Diary, On a Florida Key, The Trailer Park, Spring and My Day.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book did White receive in the story "Dog Training"?
(a) A Puppy's Education.
(b) Hounds of Glory.
(c) Teach that Mutt.
(d) Dog Training Made Easy.

2. White wrote in "Children's Book's" that he'd shared his armchair with what book for the past 3 weeks?
(a) Bumblebuzz.
(b) Boyhood Adventures of Our Presidents.
(c) Huckleberry Finn.
(d) The Cat from Chicago.

3. In "Walden," White wrote, "I have never knelt at the grave of a philosopher nor placed wreaths on" what?
(a) Decayed philosophers.
(b) Sickly actors.
(c) Moldy poets.
(d) Dead presidents.

4. Who did White claim had been able to succeed because he was able to see the world as a whole and was not hampered by any limiting thoughts?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Charlie Chaplin.
(c) Himself.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

5. White wrote in "Motor Cars" that the "motor car is, more than any other object, the expression of the" what?
(a) Ford's dream.
(b) Diesel's passion.
(c) Public's wealth.
(d) Nation's character.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children's books did White say his wife received in the past season in "Children's Books"?

2. What did E. B. White claim there was a lot of in him, which were not joiners in "Compost"?

3. When was "Motor Cars" written?

4. How many dozen eggs, brown-shelled did White claim to have produced in the past year in "Report"?

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

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