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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. When was the portrait of Elise in Chapter 4 drawn?

2. How long was the courtship between Spencer and Elise?

3. When did Spencer disappear?

4. Where were Meredith and her family from?

5. When did Dr. Gregory Black die?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Dr. Gregory Black obtain bodies for his medical students?

2. What death did Spencer experience in the fall of 1874?

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

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

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

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

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

8. How was information about Spencer collected?

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

10. What ideas about evolution would eventually separate Spencer from the rest of the scientific community?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Elise was badly burned in Chapter 6. What was her condition? How did Spencer try to help her at first? What unorthodox treatments did he resort to? How did he describe his wife at the end?

Essay Topic 2

Elise attempted to have her brother-in-law take custody of Alphonse and Samuel.

a. Why did Samuel stay with Bernard and Alphonse did not?

b. How did the lives of the two boys turn out?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 1, Spencer robbed graves with his father. How did Spencer feel about grave robbing? Did his views change throughout his life? Did he participate in the practice as an adult?

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