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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. "An anatomical theory for ranking __________ - based on entire bodies, not only on heads, - had been found."
(a) students
(b) races
(c) ages
(d) genders

2. Binet was commissioned in 1904 to find a way to identify children who ______________.
(a) were unteachable
(b) were autistic
(c) were bad at math
(d) needed special help in school

3. Ranking is used to determine that various disadvantaged groups are ______________.
(a) growing
(b) exemplary
(c) inferior
(d) unnecessary

4. What kinds of measures did Binet turn his attention to when he realized skull measuring wasn't effective?
(a) Fingers and toes
(b) Psychological
(c) Foot
(d) Spiritual

5. According to Lombroso, the genes of the past are contained in the hereditary of the individual and the ___________ surfaces at times.
(a) behavior
(b) playfulness
(c) aggression towards women
(d) shyness

Short Answer Questions

1. Motor functions are performed at the _________ of the brain.

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

3. What kinds of weaknesses is Gould looking to find in the arguments of other scientists presented in this book?

4. If inferiority is cultural, then it can be changed by __________ factors

5. Gould does not view the studies he will cover as _______ scientific practices.

(see the answer key)

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