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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Patriarch's Blessing to The Year of the Sky-Smear.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the Earth compared to in "Clay"?
(a) A lump of clay.
(b) A frescoed wall.
(c) A stone foundation.
(d) All of these.

2. How often did Carver's boss at Tuskegee want reports about his chickens?
(a) Daily.
(b) Monthly.
(c) Bi-Weekly.
(d) Weekly.

3. Where did the people think the unaccounted for chickens in "Chicken-Talk" had gone?
(a) John had freed them.
(b) Carver had sold them.
(c) Children had sniped them.
(d) Foxes had eaten them.

4. What did Carver name one of the chickens in "Poultry Husbandry"?
(a) Teddy Roosevelt.
(b) George Washington.
(c) Gerald Ford.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

5. What did the homesteader in "Old Settlers' Reunion" say Geroge did in the fields?
(a) Read.
(b) Prayed.
(c) Sang.
(d) Danced.

Short Answer Questions

1. What got scalded in "Dawn Walk"?

2. What was Pammel's occupation?

3. What did Carver always wear in his lapel?

4. Who was Carver's boss at Tuskegee?

5. In "Called," what did Carver rattle on about?

(see the answer key)

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