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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Carver say caused weeds in "The Wild Garden"?
(a) Mother Nature.
(b) God.
(c) Men.
(d) The devil.

2. Where did Carver try to sleep in "A Patriarch's Blessing"?
(a) A train.
(b) A ship.
(c) A classroom.
(d) A jail cell.

3. What was Carver offered as a joke in "House of Ways and Means"?
(a) A cot.
(b) A new suit.
(c) A watermelon.
(d) A translator.

4. When did Booker T. Washington die?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1912.

5. What honor is Carver given in "Out of the Fire"?
(a) He is given inheritance from Booker T. Washington.
(b) He is named head of the Tuskegee Institute.
(c) He is named a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.
(d) He is asked to serve on the President's Cabinet.

6. Who dedicated the George Washington Carver Museum?
(a) Andrew Curtis.
(b) Teddy Roosevelt.
(c) Hardwick.
(d) Henry Ford.

7. In "Chicken-Talk," how many chickens were unaccounted for?
(a) 897.
(b) 567.
(c) 789.
(d) 765.

8. What did the person in "My Beloved Friend" dispel?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Evil.
(c) Love.
(d) Lust.

9. What did Washington give Bridgeforth after the big debate in "The New Rooster"?
(a) A lab.
(b) The barn.
(c) The poultry yard.
(d) A studio.

10. What did Washington give Carver after the big debate in "The New Rooster"?
(a) The poultry yard.
(b) A studio.
(c) The barn.
(d) A lab.

11. How was Carver hounded about the missing chickens in "Chicken-Talk"?
(a) He got weekly phonecalls.
(b) He got daily telegrams.
(c) He had monthly visits.
(d) He had bi-weekly meetings.

12. In "The Wild Garden," what did Carver say about God's creations?
(a) All of these.
(b) Nobody understands them all.
(c) Nothing goes to waste.
(d) All is for man's good.

13. What was the person Carver saw in "A Patriarch's Blessing" sitting in?
(a) A bath tub.
(b) A mossy river.
(c) A coffin.
(d) A rocking chair.

14. Who hounded Carver for the unaccounted for chickens in "Chicken-Talk"?
(a) Booker T. Washington.
(b) Jim.
(c) Moses.
(d) Harvey.

15. In "Last Talks with Jim Hardwick," what did Carver call nature?
(a) A conserver.
(b) His binding tie to Earth.
(c) The mother of all.
(d) His destiny.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gift did Carver give to the man who dedicated the George Washington Carver Museum?

2. Where did black WWI veterans receive discrimination?

3. When was "The Year of the Sky-Smear"?

4. How did Carver tell his students to defeat their own "Goliath"?

5. What kind of climate does the "Arachis Hypogaea" like?

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