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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through American Polygeny and Craniometry before Darwin.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which was the top-ranked race in practitioners of racial ranking?
(a) Indians
(b) Chinese
(c) Blacks
(d) Whites

2. In America, the theory of polygeny was supported by Louis __________.
(a) Smith
(b) Agassi
(c) Agassiz
(d) Hume

3. If inferiority is cultural, then it can be changed by __________ factors
(a) biological
(b) environmental
(c) educational
(d) governmental

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the study of measuring the human head in order to assess intelligence called?

2. Did a desire for ______ lead to the questions and data to support a predetermined conclusion?

3. The answer to #55 was known as a _________ because he looked for small differences between species.

4. 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?

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

(see the answer key)

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