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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Getting Ready for a Cow, Bond Rally, A Week in November, Control and Cold Weather.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what grade was White's son in "Education"?
(a) Second.
(b) Third.
(c) First.
(d) Fourth.

2. Where did White go after breakfast on Tuesday in "A Winter Diary"?
(a) The harware store.
(b) The mill.
(c) The bank.
(d) The doctor.

3. What did White claim was "painfully unimaginative in its attempt to perpetuate a faith that has been gutted by so many fires"?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Church.
(c) Art.
(d) Science.

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

5. When was "Walden" written?
(a) August, 1941.
(b) April, 1939.
(c) September, 1940.
(d) June, 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gave White the book on farming in "The Practical Farmer"?

2. White wrote that he was writing on the fourth day of what battle in "Compost"?

3. What magazine did White acknowledge he should read rather than The Rural New Yorker in "Farm Paper"?

4. White wrote that a gentleman had come to his house to adjust what the other day in "Fall"?

5. How much ground limestone did White receive from the government in "Lime"?

(see the answer key)

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