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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. Gould does not believe that ____________ change reflects changes in social concepts.
(a) biological
(b) cultural
(c) scientific
(d) racial

2. In America, the theory of polygeny was supported by Louis __________.
(a) Agassiz
(b) Smith
(c) Hume
(d) Agassi

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

4. Did a desire for ______ lead to the questions and data to support a predetermined conclusion?
(a) slaves
(b) races
(c) answers
(d) ranking

5. Socrates' friend does not believe his ideas, saying that it is a lie and that ________ generations won't believe it, but ________ generations might.
(a) future, present
(b) present, future
(c) poor, rich
(d) common, enlightened

Short Answer Questions

1. Gould calls biological determinism a theory of _____________ that has had a profound effect on many people.

2. What means there is some sort of ordering that is used in assigning individuals to their relevant spot?

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

4. Ranking is used to determine that various disadvantaged groups are ______________.

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

(see the answer key)

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