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

2. How long can the English Yew live?
(a) 4,000 years.
(b) 2,000 years.
(c) 175 years.
(d) 250 years.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Elise give birth to her third child?

2. What was Elise’s last name?

3. How many years did it take curators of Philadelphia’s Museum of Medical Antiquities to collect Spencer’s papers?

4. Before moving to Philadelphia, how many years of schooling had Bernard completed at the Medical Arts College in Boston?

5. How old was Spencer when he began helping his father and brother dig up cadavers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What other operation was mentioned in Chapter 3?

3. How did Spencer do with his studies in 1869?

4. How did the success of Ward C affect the academy?

5. Where did Spencer and his brother go to live after their father died?

6. What is the story behind the Lily of the Valley told in Chapter 2?

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

8. How did Dr. Gregory Black obtain bodies for his medical students?

9. When and where were Spencer and his brother born?

10. In Chapter 3, what was Bernard doing?

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