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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. Leaders of the eighteenth and nineteenth century did not dispute __________.
(a) medical findings
(b) scientific errors
(c) scientists in general
(d) racial ranking

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

3. Who were like white adolescents?
(a) Adult Mongolians
(b) Black children
(c) White children
(d) Adult blacks

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Socrates work is Gould discussing at the opening of this book?

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

3. Gould wants to know if science added the ___________ data, or......

4. Gould calls biological determinism a theory of _____________ that has had a profound effect on many people.

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

(see the answer key)

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