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

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) unlikely
(b) useful
(c) impossible
(d) costly

2. Blumenbach believed differences in races might be linked to __________.
(a) dood
(b) DNA
(c) climate
(d) water supply

3. What was Francis Galton's book published in 1869?
(a) Hereditary Explorations
(b) Hereditary Genius
(c) Hereditary Genus
(d) Hereditary and Race

4. The answer to #48 said that humans were distinguished from _________ by the human's ability to improve himself.
(a) slaves
(b) blacks
(c) animals
(d) savages

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

6. Did a desire for ______ lead to the questions and data to support a predetermined conclusion?
(a) slaves
(b) ranking
(c) races
(d) answers

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

8. Broca also thought that ________ should be denied the benefits of education due to smaller brains.
(a) elderly people
(b) women
(c) leaders
(d) children

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) common, enlightened
(b) present, future
(c) future, present
(d) poor, rich

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

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

12. What did Gould see Broca had formed before he ever started his research?
(a) Book
(b) Conclusions
(c) Data
(d) Mistakes

13. Leaders of the eighteenth and nineteenth century did not dispute __________.
(a) scientific errors
(b) scientists in general
(c) medical findings
(d) racial ranking

14. Which race was ranked last in the eyes of the practitioners of racial ranking?
(a) Blacks
(b) Chinese
(c) Indians
(d) Whites

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Experts claimed it was no good to __________ blacks.

2. Black anatomical structure was often compared to that of a __________.

3. When did craniometry first appear in the study of intelligence?

4. People with ______ had smaller brain sizes than those who were suddenly killed in accidents.

5. Who was the skull collector that had more than one thousand different skulls?

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