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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author of "An American Dilemma" says that Americans and others would only consider the __________ factors when they were forced to.
(a) environmental
(b) biological
(c) educational
(d) spiritual

2. Each person is assigned a single ________ that determines his ranking on the scale.
(a) measurement
(b) test
(c) number
(d) chance

3. The craniometry argument is the first __________ argument that has been offered.
(a) logical
(b) reliable
(c) plausible
(d) scientific

4. The answer to #48 also tried to show the entities with a higher ranking had to repeat the _________ of those with lower ranking.
(a) education
(b) growth stages
(c) work
(d) illnesses

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What big theory was just becoming popular in the nineteenth century?

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

3. Broca also thought that ________ should be denied the benefits of education due to smaller brains.

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

5. Eysenck thought that those with ______ rapidly developing skills (as mentioned in #100) also had lower IQ scores.

(see the answer key)

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