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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 did Spencer spend much of his time studying?
(a) Infectious diseases.
(b) Birth defects.
(c) Tumors.
(d) Anesthesia.

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

3. What disease did the lizard woman in Chapter 6 have?
(a) Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
(b) Incontinentia pigmenti.
(c) Xeroderma Pigmentosa.
(d) Ichthyosis.

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

5. What did Spencer do with the fawn-child’s organs?
(a) Performed experiments on them.
(b) Put them in jars of noxious liquid.
(c) Threw them in the garbage.
(d) Pickled and preserved them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many horse-drawn caravans traveled with the American Carnival?

2. In Chapter 4, when did Spencer write about eliminating subtractive surgery?

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

4. When did a private performance of Spencer’s show go terribly wrong?

5. What year in Spencer’s life does Chapter 3 cover?

(see the answer key)

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