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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. The author of "An American Dilemma" says that Americans and others would only consider the __________ factors when they were forced to.
(a) educational
(b) spiritual
(c) biological
(d) environmental

2. 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) common, enlightened
(c) poor, rich
(d) present, future

3. What does Socrates feel will happen when all people are intelligent?
(a) Society will become revolutionary.
(b) Society will become enlightened.
(c) Society will stop changing.
(d) Society will remain stable.

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

5. David Hume was a believer in the superiority of the _______ and polygeny.
(a) white race
(b) black race
(c) white child
(d) white female

Short Answer Questions

1. What outside factors are being alluded to in #151?

2. 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.

3. The general intellectual knowledge of the child was calculated by subtracting the ________ age from his true chronological age.

4. When Burt's sample increased, his correlation between pairs for IQ _________.

5. What was the most famous work of the man in #59?

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