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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Spencer’s mother die?
(a) When he was two.
(b) 1869.
(c) Giving birth to him.
(d) 1873.

2. Where do cicadas hatch from their eggs?
(a) Ground.
(b) Under a rock.
(c) Tree.
(d) Tree trunk.

3. How old was Spencer when he finished his schooling?
(a) 22.
(b) 20.
(c) 21.
(d) 19.

4. What condition was treated in the first operation in Chapter 3?
(a) Cleft palate.
(b) Pendred syndrome.
(c) Ectrodactyly.
(d) Achondroplasia.

5. What year in Spencer’s life does Chapter 3 cover?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1872.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the date on the only known image of Alphonse?

2. In Chapter 2, what is the date of the first journal entry at the end of the chapter?

3. What book did Emma Black write that is mentioned in Chapter 1?

4. What was the name of the poem Spencer wrote about his first grave robbing experience?

5. How did Spencer believe scientific evidence was derived?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was a nightmare that Spencer wrote about in his journal in Chapter 4?

2. What did Spencer claim in his paper “The Perfect Human”?

3. How was information about Spencer collected?

4. What death did Spencer experience in the fall of 1874?

5. Who did Spencer marry and how did they meet?

6. What work did Spencer find in the evenings in 1869?

7. Who were two of the doctors who joined Spencer in his program?

8. What ideas about evolution would eventually separate Spencer from the rest of the scientific community?

9. When and how did Spencer’s father die?

10. What did Spencer begin to research in 1869?

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