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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. The individual's social and economic status is determined by biology so any attempt to make changes has to be _________.
(a) costly
(b) useful
(c) impossible
(d) unlikely

2. What did Galton measure in order to ascertain the intelligence of people?
(a) Their wrist
(b) Their skull
(c) Their leg length
(d) The space between their eyes

3. It was thought that black brains could not ____________ or absorb information.
(a) believe
(b) handle
(c) hear
(d) understand

4. The answer to #48 also said that adult blacks were like _______________.
(a) monkeys
(b) black children
(c) white children
(d) white adolescents

5. Which view was based on the idea that inferior races can not be linked to the whites because they started from a separate group of DNA and people?
(a) Polygenism
(b) Recapitulation
(c) Racial ranking
(d) Monogenism

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "An American Dilemma?"

2. Who was the data analyst for the answer to #55?

3. Who feels that blacks are inferior and therefore deserve the status of a slave?

4. Bolk felt what race was not only the most progressive, but also the most retarded?

5. What does Socrates believe all people should be?

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