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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Patriarch's Blessing to The Year of the Sky-Smear.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was "1905" about?
(a) Copernicus.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

2. Who narrated "Odalisque"?
(a) Booker T. Washington.
(b) Marilyn Nelson.
(c) Carver.
(d) One of Carver's black colleages.

3. Who created the color Egyptian Blue?
(a) Carver.
(b) Monet.
(c) Michaelangelo.
(d) Manet.

4. Who defended Carver when a student tried to insult him?
(a) Other students.
(b) The faculty.
(c) The janitors.
(d) Nobody.

5. How did Jim die?
(a) He was hanged.
(b) He had polio.
(c) He drowned.
(d) He had small pox.

Short Answer Questions

1. What form is "From an Alabama Farmer" written in?

2. In "The Joy of Sewing," what did Carver like about the finished sewing projects?

3. In "Poultry Husbandry," how many classes was Carver teaching?

4. Where did the people think the unaccounted for chickens in "Chicken-Talk" had gone?

5. How many paintings of Carver's were displayed at the World Fair?

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