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The Mismeasure of Man Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Socrates feel will happen when all people are intelligent?
(a) Society will become revolutionary.
(b) Society will become enlightened.
(c) Society will remain stable.
(d) Society will stop changing.

3. Who was the data analyst for the answer to #55?
(a) Morton
(b) No one
(c) Gould
(d) Milton

4. Craniometry is used for the _______ status of the people ranked at the bottom of the hierarchy.
(a) intelligence
(b) educational
(c) inferior
(d) racial

5. Experts claimed it was no good to __________ blacks.
(a) understand
(b) educate
(c) listen to
(d) study

6. What kind of disease can cause the brain to diminish in size before death?
(a) Flu
(b) Heart
(c) Sudden
(d) Degenerative

7. What is the study of measuring the human head in order to assess intelligence called?
(a) Cranial-sacral therapy
(b) Craniometry
(c) Psychology
(d) Neurology

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

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

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

11. People with ______ had smaller brain sizes than those who were suddenly killed in accidents.
(a) diseases
(b) AIDS
(c) children
(d) low iron

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

13. "For the past two centuries, scientific claims have become the primary agent for validating Plato's ________."
(a) Story
(b) Argument
(c) Life
(d) Myth

14. Louis from #55 believed that there were different centers of _________.
(a) creation
(b) life
(c) possibility
(d) races

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What other kind of testing, besides head measurement, can begin to measure the intelligence of a person?

2. Where was Robert Bennett Bean a physician?

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

4. The answer to #48 said that humans were distinguished from _________ by the human's ability to improve himself.

5. Hume believed there was never a __________ nation that wasn't made of white men.

(see the answer keys)

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