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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many young men did White say had gone into the service from his town in "Fall"?
(a) 12.
(b) 18.
(c) 9.
(d) 34.

2. When was "Motor Cars" written?
(a) October, 1940.
(b) January, 1940.
(c) January, 1941.
(d) July, 1939.

3. In "Freedom," White berated those who are inclined to think positively about the results brought about by what?
(a) Fascists and dictators.
(b) Dictators and Kings.
(c) Kings and Queens.
(d) Kings and fascists.

4. How much ground limestone did White receive from the government in "Lime"?
(a) 4,500 pounds.
(b) 3 tons.
(c) 1,200 pounds.
(d) 1 ton.

5. What did E. B. White claim there was a lot of in him, which were not joiners in "Compost"?
(a) Cat.
(b) Rage.
(c) Fire.
(d) Insight.

6. What president did White refer to in "Lime"?
(a) Calvin Coolidge.
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

7. White wrote that he did not think there is any considerable good in what, in "Sanitation"?
(a) Clarity of thought.
(b) Fishing in the rain.
(c) Punctuality.
(d) Hard work.

8. Where was White while writing "The Trailer Park"?
(a) Florida.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Mississippi.

9. Whose rooming house did White and his family seek shelter at in "A Winter Diary"?
(a) Mrs. Wilson's.
(b) Ms. Watson's.
(c) Mr. Johnson's.
(d) Grandma Worthington's.

10. White wrote in "Motor Cars" that the same autumn which saw the abandonment of the window crank and the adoption of the push button saw also the registration of how many young men of fighting age?
(a) 16 million.
(b) 120 million.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 230 million.

11. What governmental program sponsored the limestone donations in "Lime"?
(a) Washington's Fix.
(b) New Deal.
(c) The Philadelphia Agreement.
(d) The Great Bandage.

12. 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?
(a) Charlie Chaplin.
(b) Himself.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Hitler.

13. What did White claim was hard to get in "Songbirds"?
(a) Auto parts.
(b) Square lumber.
(c) Hen wire.
(d) Hog pens.

14. In "Book Learning," White wrote that what, "however sound in principle, often seems strangely unrelated to, and unaware of, the vital, grueling job of making a living by farming"?
(a) Fascism.
(b) Philosophic reasoning.
(c) Scientific logic.
(d) Scientific agriculture.

15. When was "Morningtime and Eveningtime" written?
(a) August, 1941.
(b) September, 1941.
(c) August, 1942.
(d) September, 1942.

Short Answer Questions

1. White wrote in "Motor Cars" that DeSoto moved its clutch pedal two inches to the left the same week that Japan did what?

2. What did White write started in the next week in "Songbirds"?

3. What book did White claim had been so successful because it is so forthright without restrictions in "Compost"?

4. White admitted in "Freedom" that he was not anxious to do what?

5. What society had White joined in "Compost"?

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