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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Motor Cars, Maine Speech, Lime, Dog Training and The Wave of the Future.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book did White receive in the story "Dog Training"?
(a) Hounds of Glory.
(b) Dog Training Made Easy.
(c) A Puppy's Education.
(d) Teach that Mutt.

2. When was Charlotte's Web published?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1956.

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

4. How many White Plymouth Rock pullets did White have in the barn in "Report"?
(a) 12.
(b) 36.
(c) 55.
(d) 4.

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?
(a) German.
(b) Spanish
(c) English.
(d) French.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did White claim was "painfully unimaginative in its attempt to perpetuate a faith that has been gutted by so many fires"?

2. What did White write grew beyond in the pasture "amid juniper and granite and lambkill" in "Salt Water Farm"?

3. When was "Hot Weather" written?

4. How many dozen eggs, brown-shelled did White claim to have produced in the past year in "Report"?

5. How many pounds of cod and haddock had White caught in "Report"?

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