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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. "A Winter Diary" was written when?
(a) October, 1940.
(b) January, 1941.
(c) November, 1940.
(d) February, 1941.

2. When was "Salt Water Farm" written?
(a) January, 1939.
(b) August, 1940.
(c) September, 1939.
(d) July, 1939.

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

4. What did White write was closely associated with evening and day's end in "Hot Weather"?
(a) Music.
(b) Food.
(c) Sunsets.
(d) Wine.

5. 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) "Juarez."
(b) "Jezebel."
(c) "Dark Victory."
(d) "Kid Galahad."

Short Answer Questions

1. What was White building in "A Winter Diary"?

2. White wrote in "Motor Cars" that the "motor car is, more than any other object, the expression of the" what?

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

4. What word is used in place of "lift" in "Maine Speech"?

5. Where was the junk shop that E. B. White went to get rid of a piece of furniture in "Removal"?

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