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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gould goes on to say that science has not been constrained by _________.
(a) facts
(b) data
(c) ideas
(d) numbers

2. Who was the skull collector that had more than one thousand different skulls?
(a) Samuel Morton
(b) Benjamin Franklin
(c) Louis
(d) Stephen Gould

3. Where was Robert Bennett Bean a physician?
(a) Texas
(b) Massachusetts
(c) Virginia
(d) Ohio

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

5. Gould also wants to look for problems in the ___________ data.
(a) numerical
(b) philosophical
(c) gender
(d) racial

Short Answer Questions

1. Ranking is used to determine that various disadvantaged groups are ______________.

2. Which was the second-ranked race for the practitioners of racial ranking?

3. What does Gould want to find in science that will support the idea that biological determinism is a result of social prejudice?

4. Who were like white adolescents?

5. According to Gould, science must be viewed in its ________ context since culture and environment also influence facts and theories.

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