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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 - Codex Extinct Animalia.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was it about the fawn-child that made it look like a fawn?
(a) Knees bent the wrong way.
(b) Hooves.
(c) Ears.
(d) Hair and nubs like horns.

2. What was the name of the poem Spencer wrote about his first grave robbing experience?
(a) Grave Robber.
(b) Resurrectionist.
(c) In the Dark.
(d) A Dreadful Sight.

3. What year were Spencer and Elise married?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1873.

4. What was the name of the woman in the household where Spencer and his brother lived after their father died?
(a) Rochelle.
(b) Margaret.
(c) Priscilla.
(d) Isadore.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month at the beginning of Chapter 3, did Spencer state that he was working tirelessly without results?

2. When did Spencer write about the dissection of the fawn-child in his journal?

3. How many specialists in human mutations were on Spencer’s team in Chapter 3?

4. How long have some English Yew lived?

5. In Chapter 6, where was the lizard-woman from?

(see the answer key)

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