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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through My People to Coincidence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 generation after the Civil War.
(d) They were the first free generation.

2. What was Carver called in "A Charmed Life"?
(a) A pilgrim.
(b) An artist.
(c) An anomaly.
(d) A traitor.

3. Who was Moses Carver?
(a) Carver's father.
(b) The owner of Carver's mother.
(c) A local priest.
(d) A slave trader.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Carver's brother?

2. What did the students' parents at Tuskagee do for a living?

3. In "Four a.m. in the Woods," what did Carver realize?

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

5. What was Pammel's occupation?

(see the answer key)

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