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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Week in April, Movies, A Boston Terrier, The World of Tomorrow and Walden.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book about a bee did White cite in "Children's Books"?
(a) Mr. Bee.
(b) Bumble Bumble Buzz.
(c) James the Bee.
(d) Bumblebuzz.

2. What train line in New York did White discover was being demolished in "Progress and Change"?
(a) The A Train.
(b) The 14th Street El.
(c) The G Train.
(d) Sixth Avenue El.

3. In "Clear Days" what Disney film did White discuss?
(a) Fantasia.
(b) Cinderella.
(c) Bambi.
(d) Sleeping Beauty.

4. What Yiddish word did E. B. White use in "Removal" that means a person who jokes, chitchats, or makes wisecracks while others are trying to work or to discuss something seriously?
(a) Kibitzer.
(b) Chutzpah.
(c) Putz.
(d) Goy.

5. What adjective did White use to describe the schoolteacher's tasks in "Education"?
(a) Herculean.
(b) Simple.
(c) Augean.
(d) Pythagorean.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did E. B. White move from to Maine?

2. In "Walden," White wrote, "We may all be ______ yet, whether we like it or not."

3. On what highway did White write he was doing fifty on in "Walden"?

4. What grew by the potatoes below the barn in "Salt Water Farm"?

5. What infirmity did the Boston terrier White had once owned have in "A Boston Terrier"?

(see the answer key)

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