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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what grade was White's son in "Education"?
(a) Second.
(b) Third.
(c) Fourth.
(d) First.

2. How many White Plymouth Rock pullets did White have in the barn in "Report"?
(a) 55.
(b) 36.
(c) 12.
(d) 4.

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

4. Who did White go to hear speak at the campground in "Camp Meeting"?
(a) Dr. Edward. T. Fairchild.
(b) Dr. Franklin. T. Ellis.
(c) Dr. Terrance F. Edwards.
(d) Dr. Francis E. Townsend.

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

6. What train line in New York did White discover was being demolished in "Progress and Change"?
(a) The A Train.
(b) The G Train.
(c) Sixth Avenue El.
(d) The 14th Street El.

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

8. Where was E. B. White born?
(a) Queens, New York.
(b) Brooklyn, New York.
(c) Mt. Vernon, New York.
(d) Bangor, Maine.

9. Who was frantically pacing while White and his neighbor tried to corner the sheep in "The Flocks We Watch by Night"?
(a) John.
(b) Steven.
(c) Fred.
(d) Morris.

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

11. What basket did E. B. White decide was unnecessary on his Maine desk in "Incoming Basket"?
(a) Temporary.
(b) Out.
(c) Partial.
(d) Incoming.

12. How many pounds of mackerel had White caught in "Report"?
(a) 38.
(b) 150.
(c) 542.
(d) 246.

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

14. What large and unattractive item did White write "came to be a sort of symbol of what I was trying to escape from" in "Removal"?
(a) An armoir.
(b) A mirror.
(c) A bookshelf.
(d) A chest.

15. With whom did E. B. White sympathize in sharing hay fever in "The Summer Catarrh"?
(a) John Wilmore.
(b) George Washington.
(c) Alexander Payne.
(d) Daniel Webster.

Short Answer Questions

1. When had White registered for the draft when he became eligible in "First World War"?

2. What did White write "a hot-weather sign" in "Hot Weather"?

3. In "Walden," White wrote, "We may all be ______ yet, whether we like it or not."

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

5. What was the name of E. B. White's wife?

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