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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. On what did Bean gather information?
(a) Family intelligence
(b) Social status
(c) Shoe size
(d) Corpus callosum

2. What was Francis Galton's book published in 1869?
(a) Hereditary Explorations
(b) Hereditary Genus
(c) Hereditary Genius
(d) Hereditary and Race

3. Each person is assigned a single ________ that determines his ranking on the scale.
(a) number
(b) measurement
(c) chance
(d) test

4. Binet tried to devise a system of testing that would distinguish between the ____________ intelligence and the learned intelligence.
(a) basic
(b) male
(c) female
(d) natural

5. The field of ________ sciences was redefined during the 19th century.
(a) mental
(b) health
(c) skeletal
(d) life

Short Answer Questions

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

2. "s" was considered the product of _________ by both Spearman and Burt.

3. The author of "An American Dilemma" says that Americans and others would only consider the __________ factors when they were forced to.

4. One problem that resulted from Binet's test was this idea: If intelligence was ____________, it was inevitable.

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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