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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What day of the week does "A Winter Diary" begin?

2. In the beginning of "A Shepherd's Life," White wrote "This is a day of 'high winds and _______ promises.

3. When was "The Trailer Park" written?

4. What crop did White claim had done well there in "Fall" that year?

5. "Aunt Poo" referred to whose aunt?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does White compare in "Book Learning"? What were his conclusions?

2. Who did "Aunt Poo" refer to? Why was White thinking of her?

3. What opposing imaged did White juxtapose in "Morningtime and Eveningtime"? What irony did he find?

4. In what way did White claim children could be coddled in "Sanitation"?

5. What world events were central in "Compost"? What was White's assertion of the situation?

6. What was the tone of the article "Freedom"?

7. Who did White take to the lake with him in "Once More to the Lake"? Why?

8. How did White effectively portray country life to an educated, urban audience?

9. What internal conflict did White face in "Lime"?

10. What did White think of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's book in "The Wave of the Future"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the career of Dr. Francis E. Townsend, the Townsend Plan and its influence on the Social Security program, and E. B. White's impressions of Townsend's ideas. Why did White believe the Maine locals would disregard Townsend?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the world of motion pictures in 1939. What criticisms did White have of the film "Dark Victory"? How does this relate to the cinema today?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the emergence of the census in the United States and how this affected White and others in the early 1940s. What was the opposition to the census about?

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