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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 did Victor die?
(a) Typhoid fever.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Polio.
(d) Measles.

2. How long did Spencer perform at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago?
(a) 10 days.
(b) 15 days.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 5 days.

3. When did Spencer join the American Carnival?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1881.
(d) 1882.

4. In Chapter 5, what did Spencer find among the sideshows of a carnival?
(a) Unusual diseases.
(b) Anatomy museum.
(c) A monkey girl.
(d) Patients.

5. What happened shortly after Spencer submitted the fawn-child paper to the academy?
(a) They fired him.
(b) They gave him a new program to manage.
(c) They terminated his funding.
(d) They took away his operating privileges.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Spencer write about the satyr in his journal?

2. What became Elise’s nickname during the time the Blacks traveled with the carnival?

3. At the beginning of Chapter 7, where was Spencer traveling?

4. In 1900, what did Spencer do for a man whose legs had been amputated?

5. As Spencer worked with the fawn-child in Chapter 5, what was he fighting?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Samuel?

2. Who was Alexander Goethe?

3. What was the first creature that Spencer created for his show?

4. What did Spencer decide to do for a living after he could no longer work at the academy?

5. Who were some of the performers in the Human Renaissance show?

6. How did Spencer get the fawn-child and what did he do with it?

7. What was the sphinx like?

8. How did Spencer describe the fawn-child?

9. How did Spencer treat Miriam Helmer?

10. How was the writing in the Codex described?

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