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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did White's father rent a cabin on a lake in Maine and take his family there for the month of August in "Once More to the Lake"?
(a) 1906.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1899.

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

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

4. What did White claim people from Maine said in place of "all" in "Maine Speech"?
(a) The entire lot.
(b) Every last section.
(c) Every piece.
(d) The whole of.

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

6. When was "Book Learning" written?
(a) April, 1942.
(b) June, 1942.
(c) September, 1942.
(d) July, 1942.

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

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

9. When was "Maine Speech" written?
(a) June, 1940.
(b) October, 1940.
(c) March, 1940.
(d) November, 1939.

10. White wrote in "Motor Cars" that the same autumn which saw the abandonment of the window crank and the adoption of the push button saw also the registration of how many young men of fighting age?
(a) 16 million.
(b) 120 million.
(c) 230 million.
(d) 1 million.

11. 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 home.
(b) At a neighbors house.
(c) In a barn.
(d) The taproom.

12. "Intimations" was written three days after what historical event?
(a) Chineese New Year.
(b) The bombing of Pearl Harbor.
(c) Kennedy's assassination.
(d) The bombing of Hiroshima.

13. 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) French.
(b) Spanish
(c) German.
(d) English.

14. White wrote in "Motor Cars" that the "motor car is, more than any other object, the expression of the" what?
(a) Ford's dream.
(b) Nation's character.
(c) Diesel's passion.
(d) Public's wealth.

15. Aunt Poo had married a man from where in "Aunt Poo"?
(a) Nepal.
(b) Japan.
(c) Thailand.
(d) Mongolia.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did White write he woke up on Tuesday in "A Winter Diary"?

2. When was "Motor Cars" written?

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

4. Where did White go after breakfast on Tuesday in "A Winter Diary"?

5. "Aunt Poo" referred to whose aunt?

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