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

2. In "Chemistry 101," what did Carver want his students to imagine?
(a) The tiny organisms all around them.
(b) How things were a hundred years back.
(c) The future.
(d) All their possibilities.

3. What was Carver thanked for in "From an Alabama Farmer"?
(a) Showing someone how to fertilize fields.
(b) Teaching black students.
(c) Creating the agricultural program.
(d) Not forgetting his roots.

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

5. How did Helen Winterset feel about Carver?
(a) She was afraid of him.
(b) She was worried about him.
(c) She hated him.
(d) She adored him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tone was "My People" written in?

2. What kind of doctor did Susan say George was?

3. Where did George first see the Ivory handled knife?

4. What was Carver's nickname in College?

5. How many paintings of Carver's were displayed at the World Fair?

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