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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. Who did Carver write to about Curtis?
(a) Curtis's father.
(b) Curtis's wife.
(c) Curtis's employer.
(d) Curtis's brother.

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

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

4. In "Letter to Mrs. Hardwick," what was Carver so surprised about?
(a) Hardwick was married.
(b) Hardwick was moving.
(c) Hardwck was quitting.
(d) Hardwick was sick.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Carver call Curtis "Baby Carver"?

2. What is "Ruellia Noctiflora"?

3. Who did the person in "My Beloved Friend" embody?

4. What was different about the hospital at Tuskegee?

5. Where did Jim Hardwick live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the "Arachis Hypogaea"?

2. What did Carver tell Hardwick he thought would happen to him when he died?

3. In "Lovingly Sons," what did Carver's boys say he did for them?

4. What did Moses say to Carver in "A Patriarch's Blessing"?

5. In "My Beloved Friend," what did Carver praise Hardwick for?

6. What did Carver say about God in "The Wild Garden"?

7. How did someone try to offend Carver in "House of Ways and Means"?

8. In "The Joy of Sewing," what caused people to laugh at Carver, and how did he respond to this?

9. What came of the experiments in "The Penol Cures"?

10. What were all the honors Carver received in "Out of the Fire"?

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