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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 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) Goy.
(b) Kibitzer.
(c) Putz.
(d) Chutzpah.

2. What did White say grew in the patch close to the farm in "Salt Water Farm"?
(a) Blueberries.
(b) Blackberries.
(c) Rhubarb.
(d) Strawberries.

3. What did White write grew beyond in the pasture "amid juniper and granite and lambkill" in "Salt Water Farm"?
(a) Asparagus.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Juniper berries.
(d) Wild strawberries.

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

5. White wrote in "Children's Book's" that he'd shared his armchair with what book for the past 3 weeks?
(a) Huckleberry Finn.
(b) The Cat from Chicago.
(c) Bumblebuzz.
(d) Boyhood Adventures of Our Presidents.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did E. B. White sympathize in sharing hay fever in "The Summer Catarrh"?

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

3. What magazine did White read to stay up to date on the cinema industry in "Movies"?

4. When was "Removal" written?

5. What large and unattractive item did White write "came to be a sort of symbol of what I was trying to escape from" in "Removal"?

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