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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. How were performers in carnival sideshows often treated?
(a) With great respect.
(b) Like cattle.
(c) With ridicule and humiliation.
(d) Like sub humans.

2. What did Spencer do with the fawn-child’s organs?
(a) Threw them in the garbage.
(b) Put them in jars of noxious liquid.
(c) Performed experiments on them.
(d) Pickled and preserved them.

3. What goddess was supposed to have created the boy that became the ganesha?
(a) Devi.
(b) Shiva.
(c) Parvati.
(d) Sarasvati.

4. In ancient times, how was the siren described?
(a) As a polar bear.
(b) As a dolphin.
(c) As a bird.
(d) As a fish.

5. What disease did the lizard woman in Chapter 6 have?
(a) Incontinentia pigmenti.
(b) Xeroderma Pigmentosa.
(c) Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
(d) Ichthyosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was a wealthy, eccentric naturalist arrested for fraud and theft?

2. What became Elise’s nickname during the time the Blacks traveled with the carnival?

3. To what does Spencer compare Alphonse in Chapter 5?

4. When did Spencer draw the fawn-child?

5. To what class did Spencer assign the sphinx?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was the Codex described?

2. Why did Spencer have to leave the World’s Columbian Exposition early?

3. What happened to Samuel?

4. What was the first creature that Spencer created for his show?

5. What procedure did Spencer follow to dissect the fawn-child?

6. How did Dr. Joab A. Holace describe Spencer in a medical journal in July 1884?

7. How was the Minotaur different from the satyr?

8. At a carnival Spencer saw in Chapter 5, what were some of the exhibits?

9. What did Spencer decide to do for a living after he could no longer work at the academy?

10. What did some believe about the creatures in the Human Renaissance show?

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