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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. When did White register in the draft in "Songbirds"?
(a) January.
(b) February.
(c) December.
(d) May.
2. What did White claim was hard to get in "Songbirds"?
(a) Auto parts.
(b) Square lumber.
(c) Hog pens.
(d) Hen wire.
3. White wrote that he was working on a picture from what book in "A Winter Diary"?
(a) Build it Perfect.
(b) American Woodworking.
(c) The American Boy's Handy Book.
(d) The Handyman.
4. 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) Public's wealth.
(c) Diesel's passion.
(d) Nation's character.
5. What did White write that people say in Maine when "you are holding a wedge for somebody to tap with a hammer"?
(a) "Tap it in."
(b) "Slap 'er now."
(c) "Bop it right."
(d) "Tunk it a little."
Short Answer Questions
1. When was "A Shepherd's Life" written?
2. "Songbirds" was written when?
3. Who did White take with him to revisit his childhood lake in "Once More to the Lake"?
4. When was "On a Florida Key" written?
5. When did White write he woke up on Tuesday in "A Winter Diary"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe White's companions in "Coon Hunt."
2. What did White think of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's book in "The Wave of the Future"?
3. What actions did White retell in "My Day"?
4. Who did White take to the lake with him in "Once More to the Lake"? Why?
5. What internal conflict did White face in "Lime"?
6. Who did White receive his survey from in "Questionnaire"? What were his answers?
7. What world events were central in "Compost"? What was White's assertion of the situation?
8. In what way did White claim children could be coddled in "Sanitation"?
9. What opposing imaged did White juxtapose in "Morningtime and Eveningtime"? What irony did he find?
10. What surroundings did White describe in "On a Florida Key"?
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