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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 second-ranked race for the practitioners of racial ranking?
(a) Whites
(b) Blacks
(c) Indians
(d) Chinese

2. 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?
(a) Polygenism
(b) Recapitulation
(c) Monogenism
(d) Racial ranking

3. Who was a 19th century anatomist who believed in the theory of polygenism?
(a) Blumenbach
(b) Gould
(c) Serres
(d) Broca

4. "We now encounter the second ____________ - ranking..."
(a) piece
(b) fallacy
(c) opinion
(d) argument

5. The craniometry argument is the first __________ argument that has been offered.
(a) reliable
(b) logical
(c) plausible
(d) scientific

Short Answer Questions

1. The answer to #48 also said that adult blacks were like _______________.

2. Gould also wants to look for problems in the ___________ data.

3. What other kind of testing, besides head measurement, can begin to measure the intelligence of a person?

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

5. "For the past two centuries, scientific claims have become the primary agent for validating Plato's ________."

(see the answer key)

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