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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Hereditarian Theory of IQ.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bean felt that the ______, or front part of the brain, was smaller in women than in men.
(a) corpus callosum
(b) genus
(c) frontal lobe
(d) amygdalla

2. Socrates' friend does not believe his ideas, saying that it is a lie and that ________ generations won't believe it, but ________ generations might.
(a) common, enlightened
(b) future, present
(c) poor, rich
(d) present, future

3. When did craniometry first appear in the study of intelligence?
(a) Late 19th century
(b) Early 19th century
(c) Last 18th century
(d) Early 18th century

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

5. Eysenck believed the _____________ development of black youngsters develops more quickly than in whites.
(a) sensory motor
(b) motor
(c) tactile
(d) physical

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Socrates work is Gould discussing at the opening of this book?

2. Gould felt that Eysenck's arguments are not based on ___________ facts.

3. It was thought that black brains could not ____________ or absorb information.

4. The answer to #93 caused a slowdown in ____________, leading to inferiority.

5. According to Gould, Broca's studies were __________ by his choice of what to observe to provide that white brains were larger than black brains.

(see the answer key)

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