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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. How many pounds of cod and haddock had White caught in "Report"?
(a) 200.
(b) 234.
(c) 175.
(d) 74.

2. When was "The Flocks We Watch by Night" written?
(a) June, 1940.
(b) March, 1938.
(c) November, 1939.
(d) October, 1938.

3. How many pounds of mackerel had White caught in "Report"?
(a) 246.
(b) 150.
(c) 542.
(d) 38.

4. White wrote in "A Shepherd's Life" that his goose would lay her what egg today?
(a) Sixth.
(b) First.
(c) Seventh.
(d) Fourth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did White write was a popular word with boys in "Maine Speech"?

2. White admitted in "Freedom" that he was not anxious to do what?

3. "A Winter Diary" was written when?

4. What president did White refer to in "Lime"?

5. In "Walden," White wrote, "I have never knelt at the grave of a philosopher nor placed wreaths on" what?

(see the answer key)

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