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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through My Dear Spiritual Boy to The Penol Cures.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of patient did Carver refuse to treat in "The Penol Cures"?
(a) A white one.
(b) An old one.
(c) A mean one.
(d) An infant.

2. Where did Booker T. Washington die?
(a) His bed.
(b) His office.
(c) His classroom.
(d) The hospital.

3. Who narrated "Odalisque"?
(a) Carver.
(b) Marilyn Nelson.
(c) One of Carver's black colleages.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

4. In "The Dimensions of the Milky Way," what did Carver say the universe was made of?
(a) Molecules.
(b) Stardust.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Water and soul.

5. Who did Carver pray for when the KKK marched against the Tuskegee hospital?
(a) The black doctors.
(b) The reporters.
(c) The black veterans.
(d) His friend in the Klan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Carver write for his College class?

2. In "The Perceiving Self," what did Carver witness?

3. Who was Moses Carver?

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

5. Who did Carver say caused weeds in "The Wild Garden"?

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