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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Leaders of the eighteenth and nineteenth century did not dispute __________.
(a) scientific errors
(b) medical findings
(c) scientists in general
(d) racial ranking

2. What does Socrates feel will happen when all people are intelligent?
(a) Society will remain stable.
(b) Society will become revolutionary.
(c) Society will stop changing.
(d) Society will become enlightened.

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

4. The answer to #55 was known as a _________ because he looked for small differences between species.
(a) species expert
(b) striker
(c) splitter
(d) microcosm expert

5. What did Galton measure in order to ascertain the intelligence of people?
(a) Their wrist
(b) Their leg length
(c) Their skull
(d) The space between their eyes

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Francis Galton's book published in 1869?

2. Bean compared the _______ of blacks and whites to prove his view of the inferiority of blacks.

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

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

5. Which race was ranked last in the eyes of the practitioners of racial ranking?

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