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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. How many times did Miss Bud send Carver home?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

2. What did Carver keep on his bedside table?
(a) A Bible.
(b) All of these.
(c) Books.
(d) Dried leaves.

3. What was Carver called in "A Charmed Life"?
(a) An artist.
(b) An anomaly.
(c) A pilgrim.
(d) A traitor.

4. Where did Miss Bud Teach?
(a) Rosevill University.
(b) Simpson College.
(c) Tuskagee Institute.
(d) Harvard.

5. In "Called," what did Carver rattle on about?
(a) Plantations.
(b) Agriculture.
(c) Equality.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jim die?

2. In "Cercospora," what did others say Carver should not trust?

3. How did Helen Winterset feel about Carver?

4. How did Watkins meet Carver?

5. What was John Bentley hired to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Carver embarrass someone in "The Nervous System of the Beetle"?

2. What did Carver say there was beauty in in "Clay"?

3. In "Old Settlers' Reunion," what did the homesteader say was strange about Carver?

4. In "Prayer of the Ivory-Handled Knife," where did George find the knife?

5. In "Watkins Laundry and Apothecary," what did Carver say about a flower?

6. In "The Prayer of Miss Budd," what was Miss Budd praying for?

7. What confuses Carver so much in "Coincidence"?

8. What did Pammel say Carver did for others in "Green-Thumb Boy," and why was this so strange at this time?

9. What offended the narrator of "Odalisque"?

10. In "Dawn Walk," why did Carver have such a hard time teaching the black students at Tuskagee?

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