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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Real Error of Cyril Burt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. No matter how strong a correlation is, it says nothing about _________.
(a) race
(b) intelligence
(c) plausibility
(d) cause

2. What was the most famous work of the man in #59?
(a) Crania Inca
(b) Crania Astounda
(c) Crania Americana
(d) Crania

3. E.D. Cope thought that _______ Europeans were inferior to others.
(a) Northern
(b) Western
(c) Southern
(d) Eastern

4. The principal components approach allowed Burt to identify _________ factors.
(a) multi-variate
(b) group
(c) basic
(d) G

5. The answer to #48 said that humans were distinguished from _________ by the human's ability to improve himself.
(a) blacks
(b) slaves
(c) animals
(d) savages

Short Answer Questions

1. The answer to #93 caused a slowdown in ____________, leading to inferiority.

2. The answer to #48 also tried to show the entities with a higher ranking had to repeat the _________ of those with lower ranking.

3. Who believes blacks are inferior but that intelligence should not be tied to the right for freedom?

4. Which was the top-ranked race in practitioners of racial ranking?

5. David Hume was a believer in the superiority of the _______ and polygeny.

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