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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Experts claimed it was no good to __________ blacks.
(a) understand
(b) study
(c) educate
(d) listen to

2. What kinds of weaknesses is Gould looking to find in the arguments of other scientists presented in this book?
(a) Ethical
(b) Spiritual
(c) Scientific
(d) Psychological

3. What means there is some sort of ordering that is used in assigning individuals to their relevant spot?
(a) Biology
(b) Theoretic discourse
(c) Ranking
(d) Scientific study

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates feel will happen when all people are intelligent?

2. "For the past two centuries, scientific claims have become the primary agent for validating Plato's ________."

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

4. Who is the author of "An American Dilemma?"

5. Flaws in the experimental design, according to Gould, do not lead to _________ in the numbers.

(see the answer key)

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