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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Measuring Heads.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The main question becomes, can ________ change the status of the inferior group?
(a) DNA
(b) medication
(c) environment
(d) education

2. The author of "An American Dilemma" says that Americans and others would only consider the __________ factors when they were forced to.
(a) biological
(b) educational
(c) environmental
(d) spiritual

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

4. David Hume was a believer in the superiority of the _______ and polygeny.
(a) white child
(b) white female
(c) white race
(d) black race

5. According to Gould, Broca's studies were __________ by his choice of what to observe to provide that white brains were larger than black brains.
(a) complete
(b) faulty
(c) biased
(d) truthful

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Francis Galton have a display in 1884?

3. Who were like white adolescents?

4. Bean felt that the ______, or front part of the brain, was smaller in women than in men.

5. Paul Broca was a professor of surgery in what city?

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