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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the child that Spencer and Elise lost shortly after birth?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Prudence.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Rachel.

2. What book did Emma Black write that is mentioned in Chapter 1?
(a) Microorganisms and Bacteria.
(b) A Journey with an American Naturalist.
(c) A Journey with an American Doctor.
(d) Pasteurization and Bacteriolgy.

3. Before moving to Philadelphia, how many years of schooling had Bernard completed at the Medical Arts College in Boston?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

4. How long do cicadas live in the ground after hatching?
(a) 12 months.
(b) 18 months.
(c) About five years.
(d) More than a decade.

5. Where did Spencer and his team have access to a special operating room?
(a) Second floor.
(b) Third floor.
(c) First floor.
(d) Basement.

6. How old was Spencer when his father died?
(a) 16.
(b) 19.
(c) 18.
(d) 17.

7. In which season did Spencer and his brother move after their father died?
(a) Winter.
(b) Spring.
(c) Fall.
(d) Summer.

8. In Chapter 3, how many right fingers did a patient have?
(a) 5.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 7.

9. When did Dr. Gregory Black die?
(a) 1874.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1868.
(d) 1859.

10. What is the date on the only known image of Alphonse?
(a) 1874.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1873.

11. Where did Spencer and his brother move after their father died?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) New York.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Chicago.

12. When did Spencer disappear?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1916.

13. How old was Spencer in Chapter 3?
(a) 20.
(b) 19
(c) 21.
(d) 25.

14. How long into the surgery did Meredith die?
(a) 35 minutes.
(b) 2 hours.
(c) 45 minutes.
(d) An hour and a half.

15. How did Spencer believe scientific evidence was derived?
(a) By objective observers.
(b) Studying.
(c) By learned scholars.
(d) Experimentation.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what researcher did Spencer work on and off for many years, illustrating hundreds of specimens?

2. What did Dr. Gregory Black teach?

3. By 1873, how many applications were being submitted by students to the academy?

4. How did Spencer and Elise meet?

5. How long have some English Yew lived?

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