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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Leaders of the eighteenth and nineteenth century did not dispute __________.
(a) racial ranking
(b) scientists in general
(c) scientific errors
(d) medical findings

2. On what did Bean gather information?
(a) Family intelligence
(b) Corpus callosum
(c) Shoe size
(d) Social status

3. What is the study of measuring the human head in order to assess intelligence called?
(a) Craniometry
(b) Cranial-sacral therapy
(c) Neurology
(d) Psychology

4. Who was the data analyst for the answer to #55?
(a) No one
(b) Gould
(c) Milton
(d) Morton

5. Franklin P. Mall __________ and __________ Bean's work.
(a) understood, appreciated
(b) repeated, agreed with
(c) repeated, refuted
(d) idolized, copied

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a 19th century anatomist who believed in the theory of polygenism?

2. The answer to #48 said that humans were distinguished from _________ by the human's ability to improve himself.

3. Black anatomical structure was often compared to that of a __________.

4. Bean felt that the ______, or front part of the brain, was smaller in women than in men.

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

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