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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. The answer to #48 also said that adult blacks were like _______________.
(a) monkeys
(b) white adolescents
(c) black children
(d) white children

2. Hume believed there was never a __________ nation that wasn't made of white men.
(a) conflict ridden
(b) productive
(c) useless
(d) civilized

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

4. "The __________ of inferior groups must be like __________ of superior groups..."
(a) adults, children
(b) children, adults
(c) children, children
(d) adults, adults

5. "______________ proved an irresistible criterion for any scientist who wanted to rank human groups as higher or lower."
(a) Creationism
(b) Determinism
(c) Evolution
(d) Recapitulation

Short Answer Questions

1. Gould wants to know if science added the ___________ data, or......

2. Who were like white adolescents?

3. Eysenck believed the _____________ development of black youngsters develops more quickly than in whites.

4. A perfect correlation graph between two variables would show ________________.

5. According to Lombroso, the genes of the past are contained in the hereditary of the individual and the ___________ surfaces at times.

(see the answer key)

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