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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 fruit did White find labeled as having dye added in "On a Florida Key"?
(a) An orange.
(b) A pineapple.
(c) An apple.
(d) A mango.

2. What crop did White claim had done well there in "Fall" that year?
(a) Rhubarb.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Corn.
(d) Pumpkins.

3. What word is used in place of "lift" in "Maine Speech"?
(a) Heave.
(b) Hernia.
(c) Hulk.
(d) Heft.

4. "Songbirds" was written when?
(a) May, 1942.
(b) April, 1942.
(c) May, 1941.
(d) March, 1942.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did White's father rent a cabin on a lake in Maine and take his family there for the month of August in "Once More to the Lake"?

2. What did White write was a popular word with boys in "Maine Speech"?

3. Who did White receive the questionnaire from in "Questionnaire"?

4. In what village did White and his family seek shelter at in "A Winter Diary"?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did White recount in "Fall"?

2. What survey did White conduct in "The Trailer Park"? What were his results?

3. What qualities of Spring did White describe in "Spring"?

4. What did White think of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's book in "The Wave of the Future"?

5. What opposing imaged did White juxtapose in "Morningtime and Eveningtime"? What irony did he find?

6. What does White compare in "Book Learning"? What were his conclusions?

7. Describe White's companions in "Coon Hunt."

8. What internal conflict did White face in "Lime"?

9. What was the tone of the article "Freedom"?

10. What surroundings did White describe in "On a Florida Key"?

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