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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Measuring Bodies.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which was the top-ranked race in practitioners of racial ranking?
(a) Indians
(b) Chinese
(c) Whites
(d) Blacks

2. Who feels that blacks are inferior and therefore deserve the status of a slave?
(a) Hard liners
(b) Racial ranking experts
(c) Soft liners
(d) Red liners

3. "An anatomical theory for ranking __________ - based on entire bodies, not only on heads, - had been found."
(a) ages
(b) genders
(c) students
(d) races

4. Havelock found that _________ males were more effeminate.
(a) older
(b) rural
(c) rrban
(d) craftsworking

5. Bean compared the _______ of blacks and whites to prove his view of the inferiority of blacks.
(a) heights
(b) brains
(c) eyes
(d) arm lengths

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gould see Broca had formed before he ever started his research?

2. Flaws in the experimental design, according to Gould, do not lead to _________ in the numbers.

3. Did a desire for ______ lead to the questions and data to support a predetermined conclusion?

4. Gould also wants to look for problems in the ___________ data.

5. Broca also thought that ________ should be denied the benefits of education due to smaller brains.

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