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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Once More to the Lake, Fall, Memorandum, Coon Hunt and Intimations.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of closet did White write he was building in "Removal"?
(a) Moldproof.
(b) Fireproof.
(c) Mothproof.
(d) Mouseproof.

3. What crop did White claim had done well there in "Fall" that year?
(a) Rhubarb.
(b) Pumpkins.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Corn.

4. What was the name of the book given to White in "The Practical Farmer"?
(a) How to Raise Chickens.
(b) Practical Farming for Beginners.
(c) Cattle Production.
(d) To Catch a Lobster.

5. Who was frantically pacing while White and his neighbor tried to corner the sheep in "The Flocks We Watch by Night"?
(a) John.
(b) Morris.
(c) Fred.
(d) Steven.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who gave White a baby seagull in "Hot Weather"?

3. In "Maine Speech," White wrote that the dialect in Maine "is as different from the tongue spoken in New York as Dutch is from" what?

4. "A Winter Diary" was written when?

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

(see the answer key)

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