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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. What did White write made the dogs uneasy in the beginning of "A Week in April"?
(a) The fog.
(b) The thunder.
(c) The rain.
(d) A full moon.

2. What did White write that people say in Maine when "you are holding a wedge for somebody to tap with a hammer"?
(a) "Slap 'er now."
(b) "Bop it right."
(c) "Tap it in."
(d) "Tunk it a little."

3. White wrote in "Motor Cars" that DeSoto moved its clutch pedal two inches to the left the same week that Japan did what?
(a) Insulted England.
(b) Rejected Christianity.
(c) Joined the Axis.
(d) Killed their Emperor.

4. When was "Hot Weather" written?
(a) June, 1939.
(b) August, 1938.
(c) July, 1939.
(d) September, 1938.

5. Where did White have lunch on Tuesday in "A Winter Diary," describing it as "booths and pine paneling and a voice singing 'I can bear the bells of Monterey"?
(a) At a neighbors house.
(b) In a barn.
(c) The taproom.
(d) At home.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was "Removal" written?

2. 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"?

3. "The Flocks We Watch by Night" begins on the "afternoon of the day after the first" what?

4. Where was White while writing "The Trailer Park"?

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"?

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