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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Franklin P. Mall __________ and __________ Bean's work.
(a) repeated, agreed with
(b) repeated, refuted
(c) idolized, copied
(d) understood, appreciated

2. Who was a 19th century anatomist who believed in the theory of polygenism?
(a) Broca
(b) Gould
(c) Serres
(d) Blumenbach

3. Paul Broca was a professor of surgery in what city?
(a) London
(b) New York
(c) Boston
(d) Paris

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

5. "We now encounter the second ____________ - ranking..."
(a) piece
(b) opinion
(c) fallacy
(d) argument

6. Gould goes on to say that science has not been constrained by _________.
(a) facts
(b) ideas
(c) numbers
(d) data

7. Gould says the claims of inferiority are limited to ____________ even thought race, sex, and social class are tied together.
(a) one group
(b) one setting
(c) one scientist
(d) one study

8. Science means looking for the ________ based on facts.
(a) truth
(b) answer
(c) reality
(d) theory

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

10. Which view was based on the story of Adam and Eve?
(a) Recapitulation
(b) Racial ranking
(c) Monogenism
(d) Polygenism

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

12. Who considered that other factors like general health and body size might also affect brain size?
(a) Blumenbach
(b) Gratiolet
(c) Broca
(d) Franklin

13. According to Gould, science must be viewed in its ________ context since culture and environment also influence facts and theories.
(a) social
(b) biological
(c) racial
(d) ethnic

14. Who was the skull collector that had more than one thousand different skulls?
(a) Samuel Morton
(b) Louis
(c) Stephen Gould
(d) Benjamin Franklin

15. Black anatomical structure was often compared to that of a __________.
(a) monkey
(b) donkey
(c) dog
(d) horse

Short Answer Questions

1. The individual's social and economic status is determined by biology so any attempt to make changes has to be _________.

2. Socrates says that class is ____________.

3. David Hume was a believer in the superiority of the _______ and polygeny.

4. Broca's numbers were based on his ______________, according to Gould.

5. Within what century did science become fascinated with numbers?

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