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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was interesting to Carver about the black pilot in "Moton Field"?

2. What was Carver offered as a joke in "House of Ways and Means"?

3. In "Last Talks with Jim Hardwick," what did Carver and Harwick talk mostly about?

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

5. When did Booker T. Washington die?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Carver respond to the death of Booker T. Washington?

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

3. Why did Carver write to Mrs. Hardwick?

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

5. Who was Ol' John in "Chicken-Talk"?

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

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

8. How and when did Carver learn about Moses's death?

9. In "My Dear Spiritual Boy," how did Carver meet the person it talked about?

10. What was "Moton Field" about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the inventions and advances made by Carver that we are still enjoying today, and how did these come to be?

Essay Topic 2

What were some of Carver's main talents, and how did these affect his success throughout his life?

Essay Topic 3

Diversity and discrimination were two major and related themes in this book. Where did these themes appear, and how did they work together to propel the plot of the book?

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