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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. Franklin P. Mall __________ and __________ Bean's work.
(a) repeated, refuted
(b) repeated, agreed with
(c) understood, appreciated
(d) idolized, copied

2. What did Gould see Broca had formed before he ever started his research?
(a) Conclusions
(b) Data
(c) Book
(d) Mistakes

3. Within what century did science become fascinated with numbers?
(a) 18th
(b) 19th
(c) 17th
(d) 20th

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

5. When did craniometry first appear in the study of intelligence?
(a) Last 18th century
(b) Early 18th century
(c) Early 19th century
(d) Late 19th century

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were like white adolescents?

2. What means there is some sort of ordering that is used in assigning individuals to their relevant spot?

3. Gould does not view the studies he will cover as _______ scientific practices.

4. Leaders of the eighteenth and nineteenth century did not dispute __________.

5. According to Gould, Broca's studies were __________ by his choice of what to observe to provide that white brains were larger than black brains.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gould want to define ranking as?

2. What did David Hume believe about white men?

3. How is biological determinism used in regards to the measurement of intelligence of people in society?

4. What does Gould have to say about science in relation to the facts it collects?

5. What does Gould logically assume to be true in relation to the contents of the brain?

6. What are 2 of the four points Gould keeps in mind as he examines the studies of the researchers in this book?

7. What are the two views that resulted in the study of racial inferiority?

8. Who was Francis Galton and what did he do for the scientific study of intelligence measurement?

9. What is the special designation that craniometry holds in relation to the study of ranking and intelligence?

10. What is Socrates' idea as to how classes and categories will be formed in relation to people in a society?

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