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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. White wrote in "Motor Cars" that some years ago "car manufacturers maliciously began reducing the size of windows and increasing the size of" what?
(a) Engines.
(b) Tires.
(c) Fuel tanks.
(d) Mudguards.

2. 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) Himself.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Charlie Chaplin.

3. In the end of "The Flocks We Watch by Night" White and his neighbor ended up at the neighbor's house doing what?
(a) Drinking beer.
(b) Smoking cigarettes.
(c) Mending fences.
(d) Sheering sheep.

4. Who wrote the book that was given to White in "The Practical Farmer"?
(a) H. A. Highstone.
(b) S. E. DeVille.
(c) T. C. Morrison.
(d) J. A. Williams.

5. In "Hot Weather," White wrote of beaches with bathhouses that smelled like what?
(a) Sour towels.
(b) Garbage cans.
(c) Unwashed feet.
(d) Dead fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did White write that people say in Maine when "you are holding a wedge for somebody to tap with a hammer"?

2. How many Toulouse geese did White have in "Report"?

3. What Yiddish word did E. B. White use in "Removal" that means a person who jokes, chitchats, or makes wisecracks while others are trying to work or to discuss something seriously?

4. Three of the pieces in One Man's Meat were originally published in what magazine?

5. In what grade was White's son in "Education"?

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