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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were like white adolescents?
(a) White children
(b) Adult blacks
(c) Adult Mongolians
(d) Black children

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

3. In America, the theory of polygeny was supported by Louis __________.
(a) Agassi
(b) Smith
(c) Hume
(d) Agassiz

4. 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) biased
(b) complete
(c) faulty
(d) truthful

5. Gould does not view the studies he will cover as _______ scientific practices.
(a) silly
(b) simplistic
(c) bad
(d) out of date

Short Answer Questions

1. Craniometry is used for the _______ status of the people ranked at the bottom of the hierarchy.

2. Blumenbach believed differences in races might be linked to __________.

3. Which was the top-ranked race in practitioners of racial ranking?

4. The answer to #48 also tried to show the entities with a higher ranking had to repeat the _________ of those with lower ranking.

5. Who was Francis Galton's cousin?

(see the answer key)

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