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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the beginning of Chapter 7, what was the date of Spencer’s journal entry?
(a) February 17.
(b) April 30.
(c) September 23.
(d) December 4.

2. What was the monster-baby that Spencer saw at a carnival in Chapter 5?
(a) Camel fetus.
(b) Whale fetus.
(c) Pig fetus.
(d) Jelly fish.

3. When did Spencer build and design a miraculous cabinet of curiosities—taxidermied replicas of mythological creatures?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1889.

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

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

6. When was the collection of a wealthy, eccentric naturalist consumed by fire?
(a) 1904.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1905.

7. What changed Spencer’s career and aspirations in Chapter 5?
(a) An operation on a pair of conjoined twins.
(b) Visit to a carnival.
(c) An accident.
(d) A falling out with his colleagues.

8. How many different species are listed in the Codex?
(a) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 11.
(d) 13.

9. Where was Spencer’s caravan parked while he and his son created creatures for his show?
(a) Small town near Detroit.
(b) Elise’s family home near Chicago.
(c) Meadow 40 miles north of Philadelphia.
(d) Farm outside of Boston.

10. When did Spencer unveil the new show he had created in Chapter 7?
(a) 1891.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1890.

11. Where did Spencer find evidence of a centaur?
(a) France.
(b) Bulgaria.
(c) Italy.
(d) Romania.

12. When was Samuel born?
(a) May 3, 1884.
(b) July 11, 1886.
(c) April 12, 1885.
(d) November 4, 1883.

13. Oddly, how did Spencer feel as he dissected the fawn-child?
(a) Vitalized and nourished.
(b) Excited and invigorated.
(c) Angry and exhausted.
(d) Frustrated and irritated.

14. In what year did Spencer write about the satyr in his journal?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1905.

15. How did the Academy receive the paper Spencer submitted on the fawn-child?
(a) Destroyed it.
(b) Published it.
(c) Rejected it.
(d) Belittled it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many universities did Spencer approach asking them to publish his paper on the fawn-child?

2. How did Victor die?

3. On what continent did the sphinx derive according to the Codex?

4. Where did Spencer take his show at the beginning of the twentieth century?

5. Where did a private performance of Spencer’s show go terribly wrong?

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