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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the one category to which Socrates does NOT say people belong?
(a) Rules
(b) Craftsman
(c) Auxiliaries
(d) Peasants

3. Bean felt that the ______, or front part of the brain, was smaller in women than in men.
(a) frontal lobe
(b) genus
(c) corpus callosum
(d) amygdalla

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

5. Where did Francis Galton have a display in 1884?
(a) International Exposition
(b) Nobel Prize banquet
(c) World Fair
(d) His home

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

7. Gould also wants to look for problems in the ___________ data.
(a) philosophical
(b) numerical
(c) gender
(d) racial

8. The author of "An American Dilemma" says that Americans and others would only consider the __________ factors when they were forced to.
(a) educational
(b) biological
(c) spiritual
(d) environmental

9. Each person is assigned a single ________ that determines his ranking on the scale.
(a) measurement
(b) chance
(c) number
(d) test

10. Gould calls biological determinism a theory of _____________ that has had a profound effect on many people.
(a) limits
(b) races
(c) society
(d) prejudice

11. When did craniometry first appear in the study of intelligence?
(a) Last 18th century
(b) Early 18th century
(c) Late 19th century
(d) Early 19th century

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

13. What does Gould want to find in science that will support the idea that biological determinism is a result of social prejudice?
(a) Faulty logic
(b) Errors in correlation
(c) Cultural influences
(d) Bad data systems

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

15. The answer to #48 also tried to show the entities with a higher ranking had to repeat the _________ of those with lower ranking.
(a) growth stages
(b) illnesses
(c) education
(d) work

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gould see Broca had formed before he ever started his research?

2. Which was the second-ranked race for the practitioners of racial ranking?

3. "For the past two centuries, scientific claims have become the primary agent for validating Plato's ________."

4. Bean compared the _______ of blacks and whites to prove his view of the inferiority of blacks.

5. Louis Pierre Gratiolet wanted to prove that __________ brains were bigger than __________ brains.

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