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

2. What is the date on the only known image of Alphonse?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1874.

3. How old was Spencer when he began helping his father and brother dig up cadavers?
(a) 11
(b) 9.
(c) 8.
(d) 10.

4. In Chapter 3, what condition did the second surgical patient suffer from?
(a) Oligodactyly.
(b) Fragile X syndrome.
(c) Rett syndrome.
(d) Polydactyly.

5. What was Elise’s last name?
(a) Charleux.
(b) Chardelle.
(c) Price.
(d) Anadante.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the man in the household where Spencer and his brother lived after their father died?

2. Where were Meredith and her family from?

3. Where did Dr. Gregory Black teach?

4. What was the name of the woman in the household where Spencer and his brother lived after their father died?

5. With whom did Spencer and his brother live after their father died?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. At the time Spencer and Bernard moved to Philadelphia, how much of a medical education had each completed?

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

5. What was the first unsuccessful surgery at Ward C?

6. How successful was Ward C?

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

8. During this time in America and around the world, what changes were occurring in medicine?

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

10. How did Spencer seem to feel about the birth of his third child?

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