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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 caused Carver to laugh in "The Nervous System of the Beetle"?
(a) A textbook was mislabeled.
(b) Someone said a beetle had a backbone.
(c) Someone called him an invertebrate.
(d) A teacher gets confused.

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

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

4. What is new about the generation Carver taught at Tuskagee?
(a) They were the first educated generation of blacks.
(b) They were the first slaves to be freed.
(c) They were the first free generation.
(d) They were the first generation after the Civil War.

5. In "Veil-Raisers," what did Carver write in his room at night?
(a) Lesson plans.
(b) Poems.
(c) Journal entries.
(d) Book reviews.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Carver thanked for in "From an Alabama Farmer"?

2. In "Veil-Raisers," who did Booker t. Washington write notes to?

3. What did Pammel call Carver?

4. What caused "The Year of the Sky-Smear"?

5. How old was Mary when she was sold into slavery?

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