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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gould want to find in science that will support the idea that biological determinism is a result of social prejudice?
(a) Faulty logic
(b) Cultural influences
(c) Errors in correlation
(d) Bad data systems

2. What is the one category to which Socrates does NOT say people belong?
(a) Peasants
(b) Craftsman
(c) Rules
(d) Auxiliaries

3. "For the past two centuries, scientific claims have become the primary agent for validating Plato's ________."
(a) Story
(b) Argument
(c) Life
(d) Myth

4. 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 evolution
(b) biological transfiguration
(c) biological destiny
(d) biological determinism

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Louis Pierre Gratiolet wanted to prove that __________ brains were bigger than __________ brains.

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?

3. What did Gould see Broca had formed before he ever started his research?

4. The craniometry argument is the first __________ argument that has been offered.

5. What is the study of measuring the human head in order to assess intelligence called?

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