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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Booker T. Washington die?
(a) His bed.
(b) His classroom.
(c) His office.
(d) The hospital.

2. What was Carver criticized for in "Eureka"?
(a) Turning his back on the black community.
(b) Sharing too much of his experiment before it was completed.
(c) Not having children.
(d) Basing his work on inspiration.

3. What did Carver show the government in "Out of the Fire"?
(a) How to use peanuts.
(b) How to dehydrate food.
(c) How to burn stubbled fields.
(d) How to fertilize fields.

4. Where was the George Washington Carver Museum placed?
(a) By the Smithsonian.
(b) At Tuskegee.
(c) In New York.
(d) At the University of Chicago.

5. In "The New Rooster," what was Bridgeforth's occupation?
(a) Assistant.
(b) Student.
(c) Professor.
(d) Farmer.

6. What was different about Hardwick from all of Carver's other boys?
(a) He was poor.
(b) He was older.
(c) He was younger.
(d) He was white.

7. What did Carver watch at night in "Veil-Raisers"?
(a) The stars.
(b) The lines of his face.
(c) The trees in the wind.
(d) Black couples walking.

8. When did Booker T. Washington die?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1912.

9. What did Carver put in someone's pocket in "Driving Mr. Carver"?
(a) A toad.
(b) A burr.
(c) A snake.
(d) A thorny rose.

10. In "The Dimensions of the Milky Way," what did Carver say the universe was made of?
(a) Molecules.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Stardust.
(d) Water and soul.

11. How did Carver keep in touch with his boys in "Lovingly Sons"?
(a) They sent telegrams.
(b) They had annual reunion.
(c) They sent letters.
(d) They made phone calls.

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

13. Who did Carver pray for when the KKK marched against the Tuskegee hospital?
(a) The black doctors.
(b) The reporters.
(c) His friend in the Klan.
(d) The black veterans.

14. What did Carver wear in "The Joy of Sewing" that made people laugh at him?
(a) Aprons.
(b) Second hand suits.
(c) Fused lapels.
(d) Red shirts.

15. What form was "My Dear Spiritual Boy" written in?
(a) An article.
(b) A journal entry.
(c) A song.
(d) A letter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was heard from the airfield in "Moton Field"?

2. How did Carver tell his students to defeat their own "Goliath"?

3. In "The Penol Cures," what disease was cured?

4. What was Curtis's first name?

5. In "Letter to Mrs. Hardwick," what relation did Carver say he would never have?

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