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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. Where did White have lunch on Tuesday in "A Winter Diary," describing it as "booths and pine paneling and a voice singing 'I can bear the bells of Monterey"?
2. What did White have to use to cure ringworm as a child in "Once More to the Lake"?
3. Whose rooming house did White and his family seek shelter at in "A Winter Diary"?
4. What did White claim people from Maine said in place of "all" in "Maine Speech"?
5. In "Maine Speech," White wrote that the dialect in Maine "is as different from the tongue spoken in New York as Dutch is from" what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was White's experience in training dogs like in "Dog Training"?
2. What does White compare in "Book Learning"? What were his conclusions?
3. What survey did White conduct in "The Trailer Park"? What were his results?
4. Who did White take to the lake with him in "Once More to the Lake"? Why?
5. What events did White describe in "A Winter Diary"?
6. What sort of list is the article "Memorandum"? What did White conclude in the article?
7. What surprised White about raising sheep in "A Shepherd's Life"?
8. What world events were central in "Compost"? What was White's assertion of the situation?
9. What qualities of Spring did White describe in "Spring"?
10. What is the most notable of literary techniques White implemented in his articles?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Describe E. B. White's move from the city to the country. Where was White born and where did he move from? What was his farm like in comparison to his city home?
Essay Topic 3
Describe White's lobster fishing trip in "Second World War." With whom does he go fishing? What are his impressions?
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