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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Spencer believe scientific evidence was derived?

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

3. What was the name of the child that Spencer and Elise lost shortly after birth?

4. What did Dr. Gregory Black teach?

5. In Chapter 3, who strongly disagreed with claims Spencer made in the first paper he published in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How successful was Ward C?

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

6. In Chapter 3, what was Bernard doing?

7. What special program did Spencer begin in Chapter 3?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 5, a visit to a carnival sideshow changed Spencer’s life. What did Spencer find at a sideshow? Why did he purchase the specimen? What did the learn from the specimen? How did his research change after that point?

Essay Topic 2

The book is a novel, but reads like a biography. What style did the author use to make the book seem real? What facts are scattered throughout the novel? How do these facts make the book seem more like a biography than a novel?

Essay Topic 3

Spencer Black was a rising young doctor.

a. What made Spencer an internationally known physician?

b. Why did he become scorned by the scientific community?

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