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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What day of the week did White begin "A Week in April"?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Wednesday.
(c) Tuesday.
(d) Sunday.

2. What movie did White cite in which Bette Davis plays a woman who relinquishes her wealth to move to the country to be with her physician husband in "Movies"?
(a) "Dark Victory."
(b) "Kid Galahad."
(c) "Juarez."
(d) "Jezebel."

3. What did White write "is so closely associated with brisk affairs" in "Hot Weather"?
(a) Morning.
(b) July.
(c) Lunchtime.
(d) Summertime.

4. In "Walden," White wrote, "I have never knelt at the grave of a philosopher nor placed wreaths on" what?
(a) Dead presidents.
(b) Sickly actors.
(c) Decayed philosophers.
(d) Moldy poets.

5. What advertisement did White discuss in "A Boston Terrier"?
(a) Standard Oil.
(b) Gordon's Gin.
(c) Camel cigarettes.
(d) The World's Fair.

6. 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) Harper's Magazine.
(b) Collier's Magazine.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) Time Magazine.

7. In the end of "The Flocks We Watch by Night" White and his neighbor ended up at the neighbor's house doing what?
(a) Drinking beer.
(b) Sheering sheep.
(c) Smoking cigarettes.
(d) Mending fences.

8. What infirmity did the Boston terrier White had once owned have in "A Boston Terrier"?
(a) No bladder control.
(b) Deaf in one ear.
(c) Blind in one eye.
(d) Missing one leg.

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

10. The first edition of One Man's Meat was published in what year?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1940.

11. The campground White described in "Camp Meeting" was in a clump of woods near what?
(a) East Machias.
(b) Waterville.
(c) Bangor.
(d) Oakland.

12. How many of White's sheep were dungy tails in "Report"?
(a) 0.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

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

14. White wrote that the sound of what music "right after breakfast gives the summer day a loose, footless feeling" in "Hot Weather"?
(a) Harp.
(b) Victrola.
(c) Tuba.
(d) Flute.

15. In what year was E. B. White's Forward to One Man's Meat written?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1944.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Hot Weather," White wrote of beaches with bathhouses that smelled like what?

2. What did White claim was "painfully unimaginative in its attempt to perpetuate a faith that has been gutted by so many fires"?

3. When was "Walden" written?

4. Who had a campground in the next county in "Camp Meeting"?

5. What did White write was closely associated with evening and day's end in "Hot Weather"?

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