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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sports do the girls take up in Memphis?
(a) Golf and racketball.
(b) Golf and tennis.
(c) Racketball and tennis.
(d) Soccer and tennis.

2. What happens in town when George Carver is born?
(a) Firestation sirens are rung.
(b) Church bells ring and guns are fired.
(c) Police cars sound their sirens.
(d) Firecrackers are set off.

3. What are some of Mr. Carver's earliest remembered adventures?
(a) Swimming and hunting at Town Farm.
(b) Hunting and fishing at Forked Deer Farm.
(c) Hunting and skeet shooting at the country hunting range.
(d) Fishing and swimming ar Forked Deer Farm.

4. What expression do Betsy and Josephine use repeatedly to describe their father's dancing?
(a) "Attempting to dance."
(b) "Awkward movements."
(c) "Strutting his stuff."
(d) "Cane dancing."

5. What does Mr. Carver carry into the bars to help him with his neuropathy?
(a) His light up watch.
(b) His crook cane.
(c) His dark glasses.
(d) His hearing aids.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname do the women in town have for George Carver?

2. For what reason are the daughters considered the "laughing stock of the town"?

3. How do the people in his family and of the town treat Mr. Carver when he is young?

4. What adventures do Betsy and Josephine write and tell Phillip about concerning their father?

5. What mistake does Mr. Carver make one night while not wearing his glasses at the Red Lantern?

(see the answer key)

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