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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. 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) present, future
(c) poor, rich
(d) future, present

2. One of the perceived problems of Lombroso's theory was the need to call _________ criminals.
(a) animals
(b) women
(c) children
(d) whites

3. What other kind of testing, besides head measurement, can begin to measure the intelligence of a person?
(a) Subliminal
(b) Psychological
(c) Body
(d) Spiritual

4. "The __________ of inferior groups must be like __________ of superior groups..."
(a) children, children
(b) children, adults
(c) adults, adults
(d) adults, children

5. "[T]he child represents a ____________ adult ancestor."
(a) unique
(b) comparable
(c) primitive
(d) younger

Short Answer Questions

1. What big theory was just becoming popular in the nineteenth century?

2. Gould wants to reexamine the existing __________ for craniometry and intelligence testing.

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

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

5. What did Galton measure in order to ascertain the intelligence of people?

(see the answer key)

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