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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. The main question becomes, can ________ change the status of the inferior group?
(a) education
(b) DNA
(c) environment
(d) medication

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Francis Galton have a display in 1884?

2. It was thought that black brains could not ____________ or absorb information.

3. What kind of disease can cause the brain to diminish in size before death?

4. People with ______ had smaller brain sizes than those who were suddenly killed in accidents.

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

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