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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. White wrote in "Children's Book's" that he'd shared his armchair with what book for the past 3 weeks?
(a) Boyhood Adventures of Our Presidents.
(b) Bumblebuzz.
(c) Huckleberry Finn.
(d) The Cat from Chicago.

2. The campground White described in "Camp Meeting" was in a clump of woods near what?
(a) Bangor.
(b) Waterville.
(c) Oakland.
(d) East Machias.

3. What day did White go to the campground for the pièce de résistance in "Camp Meeting"?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Friday.
(d) Saturday.

4. What adjective did White use to describe the schoolteacher's tasks in "Education"?
(a) Pythagorean.
(b) Augean.
(c) Simple.
(d) Herculean.

5. When was Charlotte's Web published?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1956.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money had White calculated it cost him to maintain one turkey on his farm in "Security"?

2. What is the last of the animals White listed having in "Report"?

3. How many pounds of cod and haddock had White caught in "Report"?

4. In "Fro-Joy," White and his wife set out to find a neighbor willing to lend what?

5. In the second edition of One Man's Meat, the book was expanded to include writings of E. B. White's for which magazine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was White's subject matter in "Town Meeting"? What conclusion did he reach?

2. What foreshadowing can be seen in White's second section of articles in One Man's Meat?

3. When was "Report" written? What did this article entail?

4. Why did Charles come over in "The Flocks We Watch by Night"? What did he and White do?

5. What magazines did White discuss in the article "Farm Paper"?

6. How vast was the farm White owned and described in "Salt Water Farm"?

7. What was White's impression of the World's Fair in "World of Tomorrow"?

8. What did White conclude about poets in "Poetry"?

9. What had White and his wife gone in search of in "Fro-Joy"? What was White's conclusion?

10. When was "The Summer Catarrh" written? What did White write about his allergies in this essay?

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