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

2. In Chapter 2, where did Spencer view an exhibit that influenced him greatly?
(a) Renfrew Museum.
(b) Cyrus Dallin Museum.
(c) Metropolitan Museum.
(d) Grossemier Museum.

3. Where did Spencer’s notes suggest that Elise came from?
(a) Seattle.
(b) New York.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Boston.

4. Before moving to Philadelphia, how many years of schooling had Bernard completed at the Medical Arts College in Boston?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

5. How old was Spencer when his third child was born?
(a) 26.
(b) 25.
(c) 24.
(d) 27.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Alphonse’s birth date?

2. What insect did Spencer regularly sketch and mention in his journals and letters?

3. When did Spencer disappear?

4. How many specialists in human mutations were on Spencer’s team in Chapter 3?

5. When did Dr. Gregory Black die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was known about the English Yew tree?

2. By the end of Spencer’s second year at the academy, to what was he devoting his time?

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

4. What other operation was mentioned in Chapter 3?

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

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

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

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

9. What did Spencer think about religion as a child?

10. What did Spencer write about a time he went to help his father dig up a body?

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