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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. One of the perceived problems of Lombroso's theory was the need to call _________ criminals.
(a) women
(b) whites
(c) animals
(d) children

2. Which view was based on the idea that inferior races can not be linked to the whites because they started from a separate group of DNA and people?
(a) Monogenism
(b) Recapitulation
(c) Racial ranking
(d) Polygenism

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

4. Craniometry is used for the _______ status of the people ranked at the bottom of the hierarchy.
(a) educational
(b) inferior
(c) intelligence
(d) racial

5. "s" was considered the product of _________ by both Spearman and Burt.
(a) opportunity
(b) imagination
(c) understanding
(d) training

Short Answer Questions

1. E.D. Cope based his theory in #92 on the idea that the ____________ brought on earlier maturation.

2. In America, the theory of polygeny was supported by Louis __________.

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

4. "[T]he child represents a ____________ adult ancestor."

5. Cesare Lombroso thought that ____________ behavior is hereditary.

(see the answer key)

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