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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. What did White write his friend had around his land in "Poetry"?
(a) An electric fence.
(b) Men with guns.
(c) Rocks.
(d) A white picket fence.

2. On what highway did White write he was doing fifty on in "Walden"?
(a) Country Road H.
(b) Route 62.
(c) Route 66.
(d) Highway 61.

3. What Yiddish word did E. B. White use in "Removal" that means a person who jokes, chitchats, or makes wisecracks while others are trying to work or to discuss something seriously?
(a) Goy.
(b) Chutzpah.
(c) Putz.
(d) Kibitzer.

4. What kind of closet did White write he was building in "Removal"?
(a) Mothproof.
(b) Mouseproof.
(c) Moldproof.
(d) Fireproof.

5. What did White see hunting in a field as he drove his son to school in "Second World War"?
(a) A pack of wolves.
(b) A fox.
(c) A cat.
(d) Three men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was E. B. White born?

2. How many Toulouse geese did White have in "Report"?

3. When did World War I end?

4. What did White claim was "painfully unimaginative in its attempt to perpetuate a faith that has been gutted by so many fires"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did White describe the difference in duties for the country teacher in "Education"?

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

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

5. What irony did White note about the dog in "A Boston Terrier"?

6. Who did White see speak in "Camp Meeting"? What were his conclusions of the speech?

7. When did "Hot Weather" take place? What imagery did White exhibit in the essay?

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

9. What was White's transition to Maine like in the first articles of One Man's Meat? How is this reflected in his writing?

10. Who did White write a letter to in "Walden"? Why?

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