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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 was the weather like in the beginning of "On a Florida Key"?

2. When was "Once More to the Lake" written?

3. Where did White go after breakfast on Tuesday in "A Winter Diary"?

4. In what year did White's father rent a cabin on a lake in Maine and take his family there for the month of August in "Once More to the Lake"?

5. When was "Motor Cars" written?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What events did White describe in "A Winter Diary"?

3. What survey did White conduct in "The Trailer Park"? What were his results?

4. What surprised White about raising sheep in "A Shepherd's Life"?

5. Describe White's companions in "Coon Hunt."

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the state of the U.S. economy in the end of 1939 going into 1940. When had the Great Depression begun? When did it end? How are White's assessments in "Report" reflective of the U.S. economy?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the world events in 1938, specifically examining the rise of Fascism and Nazism in Europe. What was the economy like in the United States during this period? How did White's assessment of his productivity in "Security" reflect the financial vision of the U.S.?

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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