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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 game sport did White describe in "Progress and Change"?
(a) Tennis.
(b) Horseshoes.
(c) Badminton.
(d) Croquet.

2. How many deaths were in the town the last year in "Fall"?
(a) 0.
(b) 8.
(c) 7.
(d) 2.

3. What book about a bee did White cite in "Children's Books"?
(a) Bumble Bumble Buzz.
(b) Mr. Bee.
(c) Bumblebuzz.
(d) James the Bee.

4. In "Fro-Joy," White and his wife set out to find a neighbor willing to lend what?
(a) A hope and a prayer.
(b) A gun and bullets.
(c) A horse and sleigh.
(d) A hammer and nail.

5. In the end of "The Flocks We Watch by Night" White and his neighbor ended up at the neighbor's house doing what?
(a) Drinking beer.
(b) Smoking cigarettes.
(c) Mending fences.
(d) Sheering sheep.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where in Maine did E. B. White live while writing One Man's Meat?

2. When was "Walden" written?

3. When was "Memorandum" written?

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

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

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