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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Francis Galton's cousin?
(a) Stephen Gould
(b) Paul Broca
(c) Charles Darwin
(d) Benjamin Franklin

2. Bean compared the _______ of blacks and whites to prove his view of the inferiority of blacks.
(a) arm lengths
(b) eyes
(c) brains
(d) heights

3. David Hume was a believer in the superiority of the _______ and polygeny.
(a) white race
(b) black race
(c) white child
(d) white female

4. Which was the second-ranked race for the practitioners of racial ranking?
(a) Indians
(b) Whites
(c) Blacks
(d) Chinese

5. Which Socrates work is Gould discussing at the opening of this book?
(a) Euthyphro
(b) Phaedo
(c) Apology
(d) Republic

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were like white adolescents?

2. What is the one category to which Socrates does NOT say people belong?

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

4. The answer to #48 also said that adult blacks were like _______________.

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

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