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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 - American Carnival.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Victor die?
(a) Polio.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Measles.
(d) Typhoid fever.

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

3. When did Elise give birth to her third child?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1878.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1875.

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

5. In Chapter 6, where did the dining room of an exclusive dinner club get destroyed because of Spencer’s actions?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Massachusetts.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Spencer and Elise have their first child?

2. When did Spencer build and design a miraculous cabinet of curiosities—taxidermied replicas of mythological creatures?

3. How old was Spencer when his third child was born?

4. In Chapter 6, where was Spencer’s show challenged to be indecent and blasphemous?

5. What seasons was the carnival open?

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