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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Wild Garden," what did Carver say men could have a balanced diet of?
(a) Flowers and bulbs.
(b) Fruits.
(c) Bread and water.
(d) Wild vegetables.

2. Whose garden is described in "The Wild Garden"?
(a) Carver's.
(b) Tuskegee's.
(c) Bridgeforth's.
(d) Washington's.

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

4. In "The Penol Cures," what disease was cured?
(a) Polio.
(b) Consumption.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Small Pox.

5. In "Last Talks with Jim Hardwick," what did Carver and Harwick talk mostly about?
(a) Death.
(b) God.
(c) Science.
(d) Nature.

6. What did Carver say about the black pilot in "Moton Field"?
(a) It was a shame.
(b) It was an attrocity.
(c) It was a step.
(d) It was an honor.

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

8. What did Carver show the government in "Out of the Fire"?
(a) How to burn stubbled fields.
(b) How to dehydrate food.
(c) How to fertilize fields.
(d) How to use peanuts.

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

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

11. In "Lovingly Sons," who are Carver's boys?
(a) His cousins.
(b) His students.
(c) His nephews.
(d) His church youth.

12. What was heard from the airfield in "Moton Field"?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Shouts.
(c) Silence.
(d) Gunfire.

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

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

15. What form was "My Dear Spiritual Boy" written in?
(a) An article.
(b) A song.
(c) A journal entry.
(d) A letter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Carver watch at night in "Veil-Raisers"?

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

3. What did Washington give Carver after the big debate in "The New Rooster"?

4. Who did Carver see in "A Patriarch's Blessing"?

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

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