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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 did White write he would rather train to balance an Indian club "than induce a dachshund to heed my slightest command" in "Dog Training"?
(a) A water buffalo.
(b) A lion.
(c) A hyena
(d) A zebra.

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

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

4. White wrote in "Motor Cars" that the same autumn which saw the abandonment of the window crank and the adoption of the push button saw also the registration of how many young men of fighting age?
(a) 230 million.
(b) 16 million.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 120 million.

5. How many of White's sheep were dungy tails in "Report"?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 0.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How much did membership cost White to join the society in "Compost"?

3. What color were the walls painted in White's cottage in "On a Florida Key"?

4. What did E. B. White claim there was a lot of in him, which were not joiners in "Compost"?

5. "Intimations" was written three days after what historical event?

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