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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Children's Books, Progress and Change, Salt Water Farm, Sabbath Morn and Education.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the second edition of One Man's Meat, the book was expanded to include writings of E. B. White's for which magazine?
(a) Time Magazine.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) Collier's Magazine.
(d) Harper's Magazine.

2. What did White claim was "painfully unimaginative in its attempt to perpetuate a faith that has been gutted by so many fires"?
(a) Science.
(b) Art.
(c) Church.
(d) Philosophy.

3. Where was E. B. White born?
(a) Bangor, Maine.
(b) Mt. Vernon, New York.
(c) Brooklyn, New York.
(d) Queens, New York.

4. How many children did E. B. White have?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

5. What grew by the potatoes below the barn in "Salt Water Farm"?
(a) Beets.
(b) Strawberries.
(c) Asparagus.
(d) Mustard seed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of E. B. White's wife?

2. What kind of closet did White write he was building in "Removal"?

3. What book about a bee did White cite in "Children's Books"?

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

5. How many children's books did White say his wife received in the past season in "Children's Books"?

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