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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Science means looking for the ________ based on facts.
(a) theory
(b) truth
(c) answer
(d) reality

2. What other kind of testing, besides head measurement, can begin to measure the intelligence of a person?
(a) Body
(b) Subliminal
(c) Psychological
(d) Spiritual

3. Blumenbach believed differences in races might be linked to __________.
(a) DNA
(b) climate
(c) water supply
(d) dood

4. According to Gould, science must be viewed in its ________ context since culture and environment also influence facts and theories.
(a) social
(b) racial
(c) biological
(d) ethnic

5. David Hume was a believer in the superiority of the _______ and polygeny.
(a) white race
(b) white female
(c) white child
(d) black race

Short Answer Questions

1. Socrates says that class is ____________.

2. One of the perceived problems of Lombroso's theory was the need to call _________ criminals.

3. Hume believed there was never a __________ nation that wasn't made of white men.

4. Bean compared the _______ of blacks and whites to prove his view of the inferiority of blacks.

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

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