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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did White have lunch on Tuesday in "A Winter Diary," describing it as "booths and pine paneling and a voice singing 'I can bear the bells of Monterey"?

2. White wrote in "Sanitation," "The good world will be impossible to achieve until parents quit teaching their children about" what?

3. White wrote in "The Practical Farmer" that he found it extremely difficult to combine manual labor with what?

4. White wrote in "Motor Cars" that some years ago "car manufacturers maliciously began reducing the size of windows and increasing the size of" what?

5. How many births were there in the town the last year in "Fall"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What events did White describe in "A Winter Diary"?

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

3. Who did White take to the lake with him in "Once More to the Lake"? Why?

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

5. What is the most notable of literary techniques White implemented in his articles?

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

7. How did White effectively portray country life to an educated, urban audience?

8. What was White's experience in training dogs like in "Dog Training"?

9. What elements of E. B. White's writing make him engaging to the reader?

10. Who did White receive his survey from in "Questionnaire"? What were his answers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe White's lobster fishing trip in "Second World War." With whom does he go fishing? What are his impressions?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss E. B. White's relationship and feelings about religion. What indications did White give of his philosophies in "Sabbath Morn"?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the life and career of Henry David Thoreau and his impressions on E. B. White in "Walden." What did White think of Walden Pond when he saw it in the essay?

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