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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Plato relied upon dialectic, the Church upon __________."
(a) leaders
(b) faith
(c) God
(d) dogma

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

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

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

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

6. What was the most famous work of the man in #59?
(a) Crania Astounda
(b) Crania Inca
(c) Crania
(d) Crania Americana

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

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

9. Gould wants to reexamine the existing __________ for craniometry and intelligence testing.
(a) data sets
(b) sciences
(c) logic
(d) scientific researchers

10. What kinds of weaknesses is Gould looking to find in the arguments of other scientists presented in this book?
(a) Scientific
(b) Ethical
(c) Psychological
(d) Spiritual

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

12. Gould wants to know if science added the ___________ data, or......
(a) reliable
(b) partial
(c) legitimate
(d) total

13. In America, the theory of polygeny was supported by Louis __________.
(a) Agassi
(b) Smith
(c) Hume
(d) Agassiz

14. Bean compared the _______ of blacks and whites to prove his view of the inferiority of blacks.
(a) arm lengths
(b) brains
(c) eyes
(d) heights

15. On what did Bean gather information?
(a) Corpus callosum
(b) Family intelligence
(c) Social status
(d) Shoe size

Short Answer Questions

1. Gould says the manner in which ___________ are formulated is also problematic to studies.

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

3. Socrates says that class is ____________.

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

5. Which race was ranked last in the eyes of the practitioners of racial ranking?

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