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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 did Carver put in someone's pocket in "Driving Mr. Carver"?

2. What is "Ruellia Noctiflora"?

3. In "Driving Mr. Carver," who did Zissler and Carver drive with?

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

5. Where did Carver say God lived in "Professor Carver's Bible Class"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What caused a student to doubt God in "Goliath"?

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

3. What was "The Dimensions of the Milky Way" about?

4. How did Booker T. Washington offend Carver in "The New Rooster"?

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

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

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

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

9. What was "Moton Field" about?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Protection was a strong theme in this story. Where did this theme appear, and which people were most affected by the presence of this theme?

Essay Topic 2

Many people in this book are forced to sacrifice much in order to obtain their goals. Who are some of these people, and how did their sacrifices affect the other people around them? Were these sacrifices worth the reward?

Essay Topic 3

How was Carver's upbringing unique for the time, and how did he respond to this?

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