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

2. What did E. B. White claim there was a lot of in him, which were not joiners in "Compost"?
(a) Fire.
(b) Cat.
(c) Rage.
(d) Insight.

3. What was the weather like in the beginning of "On a Florida Key"?
(a) Sunny.
(b) Raining.
(c) Cold.
(d) Foggy.

4. How many years had White prepared before getting a cow in "Getting Ready for a Cow"?
(a) 4 years.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 7 years.
(d) 3 years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Toulouse geese did White have in "Report"?

2. What word is used in place of "lift" in "Maine Speech"?

3. On what highway did White write he was doing fifty on in "Walden"?

4. Where did E. B. White move from to Maine?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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