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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. Who was Francis Galton's cousin?
(a) Benjamin Franklin
(b) Stephen Gould
(c) Charles Darwin
(d) Paul Broca

2. Louis from #55 believed that there were different centers of _________.
(a) possibility
(b) creation
(c) races
(d) life

3. Where was Leon Kamin, the researcher who discovered Burt's flaws, a psychologist at?
(a) Princeton
(b) Yale
(c) Harvard
(d) Brown

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

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.
(a) government's
(b) teacher's
(c) data's
(d) Broca's

Short Answer Questions

1. What group of students/people, as discovered by their intelligence level in response to Binet's test, was most dangerous and trainable?

2. The principal components approach allowed Burt to identify _________ factors.

3. Eysenck noticed that the average ________ of whites exceeds that of blacks.

4. What did Binet devise in order to help test the school children?

5. Binet was worried, however, that his testing might cause the child to be ___________ in school.

(see the answer key)

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