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

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

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

4. "Plato relied upon dialectic, the Church upon __________."
(a) leaders
(b) faith
(c) dogma
(d) God

5. What does Gould want to find in science that will support the idea that biological determinism is a result of social prejudice?
(a) Cultural influences
(b) Bad data systems
(c) Errors in correlation
(d) Faulty logic

Short Answer Questions

1. The answer to #48 also tried to show the entities with a higher ranking had to repeat the _________ of those with lower ranking.

2. Who believes blacks are inferior but that intelligence should not be tied to the right for freedom?

3. Which race was ranked last in the eyes of the practitioners of racial ranking?

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

5. Gould wants to know if science added the ___________ data, or......

(see the answer key)

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