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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Real Error of Cyril Burt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What means there is some sort of ordering that is used in assigning individuals to their relevant spot?
(a) Scientific study
(b) Ranking
(c) Biology
(d) Theoretic discourse

2. What group of students/people, as discovered by their intelligence level in response to Binet's test, was most dangerous and trainable?
(a) Retards
(b) Idiots
(c) Morons
(d) Imbeciles

3. Ranking is used to determine that various disadvantaged groups are ______________.
(a) growing
(b) exemplary
(c) inferior
(d) unnecessary

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

5. Intelligence, according to Goddard, came from ________ and nothing else.
(a) books
(b) school
(c) family lines
(d) race

Short Answer Questions

1. Bean compared the _______ of blacks and whites to prove his view of the inferiority of blacks.

2. "We now encounter the second ____________ - ranking..."

3. Louis Bolk felt blacks were not totally ___________.

4. Gould thought that Eysenck's arguments were the result of __________ correlations.

5. Binet spend a lot of time measuring skulls to see the correlation between size and intelligence, like Broca claimed, but his findings did not correlate with the __________ designation of smart and dumb.

(see the answer key)

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