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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. What book did White claim had been so successful because it is so forthright without restrictions in "Compost"?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The Oxford English Dictionary.
(c) Mein Kampf.
(d) The Constitution.

2. What day of the week does "A Winter Diary" begin?
(a) Friday.
(b) Saturday.
(c) Thursday.
(d) Sunday.

3. What did White write his friend had around his land in "Poetry"?
(a) Rocks.
(b) A white picket fence.
(c) An electric fence.
(d) Men with guns.

4. How many dozen eggs, brown-shelled did White claim to have produced in the past year in "Report"?
(a) 905.
(b) 149.
(c) 347.
(d) 482.

5. White claimed to be fascinated by the anatomy of what in "Motor Cars"?
(a) Progress.
(b) Decline.
(c) Women.
(d) Cars.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What grew by the potatoes below the barn in "Salt Water Farm"?

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

4. "My Day" was written when?

5. In "Freedom," White berated those who are inclined to think positively about the results brought about by what?

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