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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did White write "is so closely associated with brisk affairs" in "Hot Weather"?
(a) Morning.
(b) Summertime.
(c) Lunchtime.
(d) July.

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

3. In "Hot Weather," White wrote of beaches with bathhouses that smelled like what?
(a) Sour towels.
(b) Unwashed feet.
(c) Garbage cans.
(d) Dead fish.

4. Why did White's neighbor come to get one of his ewes in "The Flocks We Watch by Night"?
(a) She just gave birth.
(b) Her mouth was bleeding.
(c) She had a cough.
(d) Her leg was injured.

5. What did White write was closely associated with evening and day's end in "Hot Weather"?
(a) Wine.
(b) Music.
(c) Sunsets.
(d) Food.

6. How many New Hampshire Red pullets did White have in the henhouse in "Report"?
(a) 112.
(b) 68.
(c) 124.
(d) 93.

7. White wrote of driving past a woman in her yard using what in "Walden"?
(a) A lawnmower.
(b) A shotgun.
(c) A fishing rod.
(d) A shovel.

8. In "Clear Days" what Disney film did White discuss?
(a) Sleeping Beauty.
(b) Bambi.
(c) Cinderella.
(d) Fantasia.

9. When was "Second World War" written?
(a) September, 1939.
(b) October, 1939.
(c) December, 1939.
(d) August, 1938.

10. To whom did White write an imaginary letter in "Walden"?
(a) Henry David Thoreau.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) Eugene Gladstone O'Neill.
(d) Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin.

11. What day of the week did White begin "A Week in April"?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Tuesday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Wednesday.

12. With whom did White share pastures for their sheep in "The Flocks We Watch by Night"?
(a) Edward.
(b) David.
(c) Charles.
(d) Benjamin.

13. What did White say grew in the patch close to the farm in "Salt Water Farm"?
(a) Blackberries.
(b) Strawberries.
(c) Blueberries.
(d) Rhubarb.

14. When was Charlotte's Web published?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1952.

15. White wrote that the sound of what music "right after breakfast gives the summer day a loose, footless feeling" in "Hot Weather"?
(a) Tuba.
(b) Flute.
(c) Harp.
(d) Victrola.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did E. B. White have?

2. Who had a campground in the next county in "Camp Meeting"?

3. What kind of closet did White write he was building in "Removal"?

4. What ride did White watch people waiting in line for at the fair in "Security"?

5. With whom did E. B. White sympathize in sharing hay fever in "The Summer Catarrh"?

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