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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 is the study of measuring the human head in order to assess intelligence called?
(a) Craniometry
(b) Cranial-sacral therapy
(c) Psychology
(d) Neurology

2. Who were like white adolescents?
(a) Adult blacks
(b) Black children
(c) Adult Mongolians
(d) White children

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gould wants to reexamine the existing __________ for craniometry and intelligence testing.

2. Which was the second-ranked race for the practitioners of racial ranking?

3. Which view was based on the story of Adam and Eve?

4. What other kind of testing, besides head measurement, can begin to measure the intelligence of a person?

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

(see the answer key)

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