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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bean felt that the ______, or front part of the brain, was smaller in women than in men.
(a) frontal lobe
(b) corpus callosum
(c) genus
(d) amygdalla

2. Who considered that other factors like general health and body size might also affect brain size?
(a) Broca
(b) Gratiolet
(c) Franklin
(d) Blumenbach

3. Flaws in the experimental design, according to Gould, do not lead to _________ in the numbers.
(a) the right sums
(b) proper graphs
(c) usefulness
(d) credibility

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

5. The argument of _______________ is the basis for believing that measuring the intelligence of an individual allows a measure of worth or value to be attached.
(a) biological destiny
(b) biological transfiguration
(c) biological evolution
(d) biological determinism

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of weaknesses is Gould looking to find in the arguments of other scientists presented in this book?

2. It is logical to assume that mentality and ____________ are located in the brain.

3. Franklin P. Mall __________ and __________ Bean's work.

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

5. Gould goes on to say that science has not been constrained by _________.

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