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

2. Gould says the manner in which ___________ are formulated is also problematic to studies.
(a) study conditions
(b) data sets
(c) formulas
(d) scientific questions

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

4. What other kind of testing, besides head measurement, can begin to measure the intelligence of a person?
(a) Spiritual
(b) Subliminal
(c) Psychological
(d) Body

5. Gould calls biological determinism a theory of _____________ that has had a profound effect on many people.
(a) races
(b) limits
(c) prejudice
(d) society

Short Answer Questions

1. The main question becomes, can ________ change the status of the inferior group?

2. What means there is some sort of ordering that is used in assigning individuals to their relevant spot?

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

4. What is the one category to which Socrates does NOT say people belong?

5. David Hume was a believer in the superiority of the _______ and polygeny.

(see the answer key)

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