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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What basket did E. B. White decide was unnecessary on his Maine desk in "Incoming Basket"?
(a) Out.
(b) Partial.
(c) Temporary.
(d) Incoming.

2. What day did White go to the campground for the pièce de résistance in "Camp Meeting"?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Friday.

3. What was the name of E. B. White's wife?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Christina.
(c) Katharine.
(d) Sarah.

4. To whom did White write an imaginary letter in "Walden"?
(a) Henry David Thoreau.
(b) Eugene Gladstone O'Neill.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin.

5. What did White claim was "painfully unimaginative in its attempt to perpetuate a faith that has been gutted by so many fires"?
(a) Art.
(b) Church.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Science.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did White write had never been exposed to public schools in "Education"?

2. 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"?

3. What did White say grew in the patch close to the farm in "Salt Water Farm"?

4. What advertisement did White discuss in "A Boston Terrier"?

5. "The Flocks We Watch by Night" begins on the "afternoon of the day after the first" what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did White go in "Second World War"? What was his impression of the trip and his companion?

2. Who did White write a letter to in "Walden"? Why?

3. When was "The Summer Catarrh" written? What did White write about his allergies in this essay?

4. When did "Hot Weather" take place? What imagery did White exhibit in the essay?

5. What foreshadowing can be seen in White's second section of articles in One Man's Meat?

6. What was White's transition to Maine like in the first articles of One Man's Meat? How is this reflected in his writing?

7. What magazines did White discuss in the article "Farm Paper"?

8. What events did White describe in "A Week in April"?

9. What did White discover about his expenses on the farm in "Security"? What was he doing in the narrative?

10. What news did White discover in "Progress and Change"? What nostalgia did it bring up?

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