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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. According to Gould, science must be viewed in its ________ context since culture and environment also influence facts and theories.
(a) biological
(b) social
(c) racial
(d) ethnic

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

3. 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) Monogenism
(b) Racial ranking
(c) Polygenism
(d) Recapitulation

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the data analyst for the answer to #55?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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