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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What crop did White claim had done well there in "Fall" that year?
(a) Corn.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Pumpkins.
(d) Rhubarb.

2. 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?
(a) English.
(b) French.
(c) Spanish
(d) German.

3. White wrote in "The Practical Farmer" that he found it extremely difficult to combine manual labor with what?
(a) Enjoyment.
(b) Enlightenment.
(c) Intellectual labor.
(d) Rest.

4. What word is used in place of "lift" in "Maine Speech"?
(a) Heft.
(b) Hernia.
(c) Heave.
(d) Hulk.

5. When was "A Shepherd's Life" written?
(a) February, 1940.
(b) August, 1940.
(c) April, 1940.
(d) October, 1939.

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

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

8. What hung on the west wall of White's cottage in "On a Florida Key"?
(a) A school degree.
(b) A painting.
(c) An Indian rug.
(d) A bathing suit.

9. What did White describe on the floor of his cottage in "On a Florida Key"?
(a) An alligator.
(b) A straw mat.
(c) A palm frond.
(d) Sand.

10. What did White write started in the next week in "Songbirds"?
(a) The rain.
(b) Springtime.
(c) Sugar rationing.
(d) The war.

11. White wrote in "Motor Cars" that DeSoto moved its clutch pedal two inches to the left the same week that Japan did what?
(a) Insulted England.
(b) Killed their Emperor.
(c) Joined the Axis.
(d) Rejected Christianity.

12. Who did White receive the questionnaire from in "Questionnaire"?
(a) The Treasury.
(b) Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(c) The Navy.
(d) Selective Service.

13. "A Winter Diary" was written when?
(a) October, 1940.
(b) January, 1941.
(c) November, 1940.
(d) February, 1941.

14. 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 lion.
(b) A hyena
(c) A water buffalo.
(d) A zebra.

15. Who wrote the book that was given to White in "The Practical Farmer"?
(a) S. E. DeVille.
(b) J. A. Williams.
(c) H. A. Highstone.
(d) T. C. Morrison.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was "Lime" written?

2. When was "Compost" written?

3. What did White write was a popular word with boys in "Maine Speech"?

4. What did White claim as his profession in "Questionnaire"?

5. In the beginning of "A Shepherd's Life," White wrote "This is a day of 'high winds and _______ promises.

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