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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 day of the week did White begin "A Week in April"?
(a) Tuesday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Wednesday.

2. In "Clear Days" what Disney film did White discuss?
(a) Sleeping Beauty.
(b) Cinderella.
(c) Bambi.
(d) Fantasia.

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

4. When did World War I end?
(a) December, 1918.
(b) November, 1918.
(c) March, 1919.
(d) January, 1919.

5. In "Hot Weather," White wrote of beaches with bathhouses that smelled like what?
(a) Dead fish.
(b) Garbage cans.
(c) Unwashed feet.
(d) Sour towels.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did White share pastures for their sheep in "The Flocks We Watch by Night"?

2. What did White write "a hot-weather sign" in "Hot Weather"?

3. What day did White go to the campground for the pièce de résistance in "Camp Meeting"?

4. "The Flocks We Watch by Night" begins on the "afternoon of the day after the first" what?

5. How many grade sheep did White report having in "Report"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What can be noted about White's personality in reading his articles? What character traits did he exhibit?

5. What conflict did White face in "Clear Days"? How did he relate this to world events?

6. What did White discover about his expenses on the farm in "Security"? What was he doing in the narrative?

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

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

9. Why was White inundated with children's books in "Children's Books"? What books did he mention?

10. Describe the contradictions in E. B. White's nature as viewed through his writing.

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