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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Polygenism
(b) Racial ranking
(c) Monogenism
(d) Recapitulation

2. Gould does not view the studies he will cover as _______ scientific practices.
(a) silly
(b) simplistic
(c) bad
(d) out of date

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

4. What was Lombroso's theory known as?
(a) Criminalism
(b) Artavism
(c) Atavism
(d) Alavism

5. What was the nationality of H. J. Eysenck?
(a) Swedish
(b) British
(c) Swiss
(d) German

Short Answer Questions

1. The individual's social and economic status is determined by biology so any attempt to make changes has to be _________.

2. Bean felt that the ______, or front part of the brain, was smaller in women than in men.

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

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

5. Bolk felt what race was not only the most progressive, but also the most retarded?

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