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George Washington Carver

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

George Washington Carver was:

a)

angry and upset

b)

hardworking and creative

c)

someone who gave up easily

2.

What is a professor?

a)

A person who raises livestock

b)

A farmer who works on land

c)

A college or university teacher

3.

Which of the following sentences talks about a problem?

a)

Professor Carver taught farmers to add leaves to soil

b)

Each year the crop was smaller, and the farmers poorer

c)

These new products meant new items for the farmers to sell

4.

Which sentence shows that word spread about what Carver knew about farming?

a)

Carver believed that people should treat each other with respect

b)

Carver went to Alabama to help poor farmers

c)

Carver was asked to speak in front of Congress

5.

What is an example of something Carver accomplished?

a)

He became the first black professor at his college

b)

He taught poor farmers to plant crops

c)

All of the above

6.

What happened after Carver was not allowed to stay at a college because he was black?

a)

He went to another college

b)

He gave up

c)

He became a speaker

7.

What does invent mean?

a)

Work on land owned by others

b)

Teach in a large college

c)

Create, design or build something that did not exist before

8.

What showed the influence of Carver?

a)

He loved to garden

b)

He won the respect of a whole country

c)

When he was twelve, he left for another school

9.

What happened after Carver spoke in Congress for 10 minutes?

a)

They made fun of him

b)

He invented 300 uses for the peanut

c)

Congress asked him to speak more

10.

Which one is an opinion?

a)

Carver was an interesting man

b)

Carver believed people should treat each other with respect

c)

Carver believed people should care for the earth

11.

Which sentence shows George didn't have parents?

a)

When the war ended, George was free

b)

The Carvers gave the orphaned boys a home

c)

Susan taught George to read, write, and sew