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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 announce that he wanted to become a medical doctor?
(a) After finishing high school.
(b) When he was 19.
(c) Shortly after his father’s death.
(d) When he was 21.

2. What ideas of Spencer’s began to separate him from the rest of the scientific community?
(a) Nature of science.
(b) Surgical practices.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Methods for medical education.

3. What do cicadas transform into when they emerge from the ground?
(a) Pupae.
(b) Winged insects.
(c) Cocoons.
(d) Butterflies.

4. When was the portrait of Elise in Chapter 4 drawn?
(a) 1875.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1871.

5. What did Dr. Gregory Black teach?
(a) Biology.
(b) Physiology.
(c) Anatomy.
(d) Botany.

Short Answer Questions

1. What program did Spencer begin in Chapter 3?

2. How old was Spencer in Chapter 3?

3. In Chapter 2, from where did the dead insects come from that Spencer illustrated?

4. How long into the surgery did Meredith die?

5. How old was Meredith Anne Heath?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was known about the English Yew tree?

2. What was the first operation performed in Ward C?

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

4. What is the life cycle of the cicada?

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

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

7. How successful was Ward C?

8. What did Spencer begin to research in 1869?

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

10. How did Spencer’s personality change in 1876?

(see the answer keys)

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