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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through American Polygeny and Craniometry before Darwin.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Gould wants to reexamine the existing __________ for craniometry and intelligence testing.
(a) scientific researchers
(b) sciences
(c) logic
(d) data sets

3. Socrates says that class is ____________.
(a) Predetermined
(b) Unneccesary
(c) Useful
(d) Inhumane

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

5. The argument of _______________ is the basis for believing that measuring the intelligence of an individual allows a measure of worth or value to be attached.
(a) biological evolution
(b) biological transfiguration
(c) biological destiny
(d) biological determinism

Short Answer Questions

1. Black anatomical structure was often compared to that of a __________.

2. Leaders of the eighteenth and nineteenth century did not dispute __________.

3. Blumenbach believed differences in races might be linked to __________.

4. The answer to #48 also said that adult blacks were like _______________.

5. What kinds of weaknesses is Gould looking to find in the arguments of other scientists presented in this book?

(see the answer key)

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