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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose rooming house did White and his family seek shelter at in "A Winter Diary"?
(a) Mr. Johnson's.
(b) Grandma Worthington's.
(c) Ms. Watson's.
(d) Mrs. Wilson's.

2. Where did White have lunch on Tuesday in "A Winter Diary," describing it as "booths and pine paneling and a voice singing 'I can bear the bells of Monterey"?
(a) At a neighbors house.
(b) In a barn.
(c) At home.
(d) The taproom.

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

4. What governmental program sponsored the limestone donations in "Lime"?
(a) The Great Bandage.
(b) Washington's Fix.
(c) New Deal.
(d) The Philadelphia Agreement.

5. Where was White while writing "The Trailer Park"?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Florida.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Georgia.

6. What president did White refer to in "Lime"?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Calvin Coolidge.
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt.

7. White admitted in "Freedom" that he was not anxious to do what?
(a) To go to New York City.
(b) Change the world.
(c) Attend a funeral.
(d) Work anymore.

8. When was "Fall" written?
(a) November, 1940.
(b) September, 1941.
(c) August, 1940.
(d) October, 1941.

9. When was "Once More to the Lake" written?
(a) November, 1941.
(b) March, 1942.
(c) June, 1941.
(d) August, 1941.

10. "Aunt Poo" referred to whose aunt?
(a) Katharine's.
(b) Jack's.
(c) E. B. White's.
(d) Charles'.

11. When did White write he woke up on Tuesday in "A Winter Diary"?
(a) 10:30.
(b) 6:00.
(c) 5:15.
(d) 7:15.

12. "Songbirds" was written when?
(a) April, 1942.
(b) May, 1942.
(c) March, 1942.
(d) May, 1941.

13. When was "The Trailer Park" written?
(a) June, 1941.
(b) December, 1940.
(c) March, 1941.
(d) February, 1941.

14. Who gave White the book on farming in "The Practical Farmer"?
(a) His publishers.
(b) A preacher.
(c) His wife.
(d) A salesman.

15. In "Freedom," White berated those who are inclined to think positively about the results brought about by what?
(a) Dictators and Kings.
(b) Kings and fascists.
(c) Fascists and dictators.
(d) Kings and Queens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did White take with him to revisit his childhood lake in "Once More to the Lake"?

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

3. What color were the walls painted in White's cottage in "On a Florida Key"?

4. What crop did White claim had done well there in "Fall" that year?

5. White wrote in "The Practical Farmer" that he found it extremely difficult to combine manual labor with what?

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