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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The individual's social and economic status is determined by biology so any attempt to make changes has to be _________.
(a) costly
(b) useful
(c) impossible
(d) unlikely

3. Gould wants to reexamine the existing __________ for craniometry and intelligence testing.
(a) logic
(b) data sets
(c) scientific researchers
(d) sciences

4. "For the past two centuries, scientific claims have become the primary agent for validating Plato's ________."
(a) Life
(b) Story
(c) Myth
(d) Argument

5. Who is the author of "An American Dilemma?"
(a) Gunnar Myrdal
(b) Benjamin Franklin
(c) Stephen Gould
(d) Socrates

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Gould, science must be viewed in its ________ context since culture and environment also influence facts and theories.

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

3. 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.

4. Gould goes on to say that science has not been constrained by _________.

5. "Plato relied upon dialectic, the Church upon __________."

(see the answer key)

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