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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who did White take with him to revisit his childhood lake in "Once More to the Lake"?
(a) His wife.
(b) His father.
(c) His neighbor.
(d) His son.

3. 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 Queens.
(c) Kings and fascists.
(d) Fascists and dictators.

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

5. White wrote in "Sanitation," "The good world will be impossible to achieve until parents quit teaching their children about" what?
(a) Selfishness.
(b) Gluttony.
(c) Radicalism.
(d) Materialism.

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

7. How many young men did White say had gone into the service from his town in "Fall"?
(a) 18.
(b) 12.
(c) 9.
(d) 34.

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

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

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

11. White wrote in "A Shepherd's Life" that his goose would lay her what egg today?
(a) First.
(b) Sixth.
(c) Seventh.
(d) Fourth.

12. What did White have to use to cure ringworm as a child in "Once More to the Lake"?
(a) Blueberry juice.
(b) White moss.
(c) Birch bark.
(d) Pond's Extract.

13. When was "On a Florida Key" written?
(a) March, 1941.
(b) January, 1940.
(c) March, 1940.
(d) February, 1941.

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

15. White wrote that he was working on a picture from what book in "A Winter Diary"?
(a) Build it Perfect.
(b) The Handyman.
(c) The American Boy's Handy Book.
(d) American Woodworking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did White claim people from Maine said in place of "all" in "Maine Speech"?

2. When was "Lime" written?

3. What did White write in "Morningtime and Eveningtime" was "in the western part of town, over on the river where it joins the sea"?

4. "Songbirds" was written when?

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

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