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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. When was "The Year of the Sky-Smear"?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1912.

2. How many times did Miss Bud send Carver home?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

3. What did Miss Bud teach?
(a) Spelling.
(b) Art.
(c) History.
(d) English.

4. What amazed Pammel about Carver?
(a) The way he fit in.
(b) The way he absorbed information.
(c) The way he got others to like him.
(d) The way he looked at the world.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created the color Egyptian Blue?

2. In "A Ship Without a Rudder," what did Carver wear in his lapel?

3. What is an invertebrate?

4. How many acres did the homesteader in "Old Settlers' Reunion" own?

5. What was the person Carver saw in "A Patriarch's Blessing" sitting in?

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