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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Winter Diary, On a Florida Key, The Trailer Park, Spring and My Day.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. White wrote in "Motor Cars" that some years ago "car manufacturers maliciously began reducing the size of windows and increasing the size of" what?
(a) Tires.
(b) Engines.
(c) Fuel tanks.
(d) Mudguards.

2. 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) Boyhood Adventures of Our Presidents.
(c) Bumblebuzz.
(d) The Cat from Chicago.

3. White admitted in "Freedom" that he was not anxious to do what?
(a) Work anymore.
(b) To go to New York City.
(c) Change the world.
(d) Attend a funeral.

4. Where had White taken a trip in "Walden"?
(a) Ottawa, Ontario.
(b) Hartford, Connecticut.
(c) Buffalo, New York.
(d) Concord, Massachusetts.

5. White wrote in "Sanitation," "The good world will be impossible to achieve until parents quit teaching their children about" what?
(a) Selfishness.
(b) Materialism.
(c) Radicalism.
(d) Gluttony.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did White write "is so closely associated with brisk affairs" in "Hot Weather"?

2. How many of White's sheep were dungy tails in "Report"?

3. To whom did White write an imaginary letter in "Walden"?

4. Who did White claim had been able to succeed because he was able to see the world as a whole and was not hampered by any limiting thoughts?

5. The campground White described in "Camp Meeting" was in a clump of woods near what?

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