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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 - Human Renaissance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name did Spencer give Alphonse after performing surgery on him?
(a) Strong man.
(b) Winged man.
(c) Unaging man.
(d) Sleepless man.

2. Why did Spencer decide that the fawn-child was not a ruminant?
(a) No hooves.
(b) No four-chambered stomach.
(c) No horns.
(d) No 3-chambered stomach.

3. When did Spencer disappear?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1908.

4. How much did Spencer pay for a fawn-child specimen in Chapter 5?
(a) $200.
(b) $100.
(c) $150.
(d) $75.

5. In what year were the journal entries written at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1868.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ideas of Spencer’s began to separate him from the rest of the scientific community?

2. What did Samuel study after he went to live with his uncle and aunt?

3. When did Spencer build and design a miraculous cabinet of curiosities—taxidermied replicas of mythological creatures?

4. What disease did the lizard woman in Chapter 6 have?

5. What was the monster-baby that Spencer saw at a carnival in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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