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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. What color is the resin from the Myrrh tree?
(a) Reddish-brown.
(b) Golden-brown.
(c) Gray.
(d) Black.

2. When was Bernard Black born?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1832.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1851.

3. With whom did Spencer and his brother live after their father died?
(a) Foster parents.
(b) Uncle and Aunt.
(c) Family friends.
(d) Grandparents.

4. What did Spencer spend much of his time studying?
(a) Birth defects.
(b) Tumors.
(c) Anesthesia.
(d) Infectious diseases.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years did it take curators of Philadelphia’s Museum of Medical Antiquities to collect Spencer’s papers?

2. In what month at the beginning of Chapter 3, did Spencer state that he was working tirelessly without results?

3. What was the purpose of the program Spencer began in Chapter 3?

4. During which year at the Academy in Philadelphia did Spencer begin taking illustration seriously?

5. How old was Meredith Anne Heath?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was information about Spencer collected?

2. What was the first unsuccessful surgery at Ward C?

3. What is the life cycle of the cicada?

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

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

6. How successful was Ward C?

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

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

9. What did Spencer claim in his paper “The Perfect Human”?

10. Who did Spencer marry and how did they meet?

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