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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. During his last year at the academy, how did Spencer devote his time?
(a) Dissections.
(b) Private studies.
(c) More lectures.
(d) More surgeries.

3. How many surgeons worked in Spencer’s program in Chapter 3?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

4. Who was Bernard working for in Chapter 3?
(a) Metropolitan Museum.
(b) National Museum of Natural History.
(c) Philadelphia General Hospital.
(d) New York Society of Science.

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

6. In what month at the beginning of Chapter 3, did Spencer state that he was working tirelessly without results?
(a) March.
(b) April.
(c) February.
(d) January.

7. Who was one of Spencer’s most influential professors?
(a) Robert Wyatt Williams.
(b) Bernard Philip Vandervere.
(c) Peter David Andrews.
(d) Joseph Warren Denkel.

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

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

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

11. When was the last time the materials in the book were seen?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1919.

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

13. What killed Dr. Gregory Black?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Pneumonia.

14. When did Spencer announce that he wanted to become a medical doctor?
(a) Shortly after his father’s death.
(b) When he was 19.
(c) After finishing high school.
(d) When he was 21.

15. When did Spencer and Elise have their first child?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1874.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Spencer and his brother move as mentioned at the end of Chapter 1?

2. In Chapter 2, from where did the dead insects come from that Spencer illustrated?

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

4. Where did Spencer and his brother move after their father died?

5. What was Alphonse’s birth date?

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