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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 second-ranked race for the practitioners of racial ranking?
(a) Whites
(b) Chinese
(c) Blacks
(d) Indians

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

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

4. On what did Bean gather information?
(a) Social status
(b) Family intelligence
(c) Shoe size
(d) Corpus callosum

5. Eysenck believed the _____________ development of black youngsters develops more quickly than in whites.
(a) physical
(b) motor
(c) tactile
(d) sensory motor

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Socrates work is Gould discussing at the opening of this book?

2. Havelock Ellis was a scientist who claimed the superiority of __________ during this period.

3. What was Lombroso's theory known as?

4. Ranking is used to determine that various disadvantaged groups are ______________.

5. It is logical to assume that mentality and ____________ are located in the brain.

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