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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. "A Winter Diary" was written when?
(a) January, 1941.
(b) October, 1940.
(c) February, 1941.
(d) November, 1940.

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

3. When had White registered for the draft when he became eligible in "First World War"?
(a) February, 1919.
(b) January, 1919.
(c) September, 1918.
(d) August, 1918.

4. What game sport did White describe in "Progress and Change"?
(a) Tennis.
(b) Croquet.
(c) Badminton.
(d) Horseshoes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did E. B. White claim there was a lot of in him, which were not joiners in "Compost"?

2. How much ground limestone did White receive from the government in "Lime"?

3. White wrote in "Walden" that he had often gone a mile out of his way to avoid a place of what interest?

4. Three of the pieces in One Man's Meat were originally published in what magazine?

5. When was "A Shepherd's Life" written?

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