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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many times did Miss Bud send Carver home?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

2. Which of these was NOT kept on Carver's bedside table?
(a) A photograph of his mother.
(b) A bill of sale.
(c) Notes.
(d) Seeds.

3. In "Called," what did Carver rattle on about?
(a) Plantations.
(b) Education.
(c) Equality.
(d) Agriculture.

4. How many paintings of Carver's were displayed at the World Fair?
(a) 3.
(b) 9.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

5. What did the students' parents at Tuskagee do for a living?
(a) They were farmers.
(b) They were industry workers.
(c) They were slaves.
(d) They were plantation inheritors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Miss Bud Teach?

2. What was "The Last Rose of Summer" about?

3. Why was a family sitting on the train tracks in "Coincidence"?

4. What was Carver called in "A Charmed Life"?

5. In "Cafeteria Food," how did Carver say he wanted to serve blacks?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "Cercospora" about?

2. In "Old Settlers' Reunion," what did the homesteader say was strange about Carver?

3. How did Carver embarrass someone in "The Nervous System of the Beetle"?

4. In "A Ship Without a Rudder," how did Helen help Carver?

5. What made Carver so well-liked in college?

6. In "Prayer of the Ivory-Handled Knife," where did George find the knife?

7. What did Pammel say Carver did for others in "Green-Thumb Boy," and why was this so strange at this time?

8. What did Carver say there was beauty in in "Clay"?

9. In "Watkins Laundry and Apothecary," what did Carver say about a flower?

10. What happened in "The Perceiving Self"?

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