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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In America, the theory of polygeny was supported by Louis __________.
(a) Agassiz
(b) Agassi
(c) Hume
(d) Smith
2. Blumenbach believed differences in races might be linked to __________.
(a) dood
(b) water supply
(c) DNA
(d) climate
3. Who was the skull collector that had more than one thousand different skulls?
(a) Stephen Gould
(b) Samuel Morton
(c) Benjamin Franklin
(d) Louis
4. Which Socrates work is Gould discussing at the opening of this book?
(a) Republic
(b) Apology
(c) Euthyphro
(d) Phaedo
5. The answer to #48 also tried to show the entities with a higher ranking had to repeat the _________ of those with lower ranking.
(a) education
(b) growth stages
(c) illnesses
(d) work
6. Gould goes on to say that science has not been constrained by _________.
(a) data
(b) numbers
(c) ideas
(d) facts
7. What kinds of weaknesses is Gould looking to find in the arguments of other scientists presented in this book?
(a) Spiritual
(b) Psychological
(c) Ethical
(d) Scientific
8. The craniometry argument is the first __________ argument that has been offered.
(a) reliable
(b) plausible
(c) logical
(d) scientific
9. Who considered that other factors like general health and body size might also affect brain size?
(a) Broca
(b) Blumenbach
(c) Gratiolet
(d) Franklin
10. Motor functions are performed at the _________ of the brain.
(a) front
(b) right side
(c) left side
(d) back
11. Bean felt that the ______, or front part of the brain, was smaller in women than in men.
(a) amygdalla
(b) genus
(c) frontal lobe
(d) corpus callosum
12. David Hume was a believer in the superiority of the _______ and polygeny.
(a) white child
(b) black race
(c) white female
(d) white race
13. Which view was based on the idea that inferior races can not be linked to the whites because they started from a separate group of DNA and people?
(a) Recapitulation
(b) Monogenism
(c) Polygenism
(d) Racial ranking
14. Who was the data analyst for the answer to #55?
(a) Gould
(b) No one
(c) Morton
(d) Milton
15. On what did Bean gather information?
(a) Social status
(b) Family intelligence
(c) Corpus callosum
(d) Shoe size
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the study of measuring the human head in order to assess intelligence called?
2. Gould calls biological determinism a theory of _____________ that has had a profound effect on many people.
3. People with ______ had smaller brain sizes than those who were suddenly killed in accidents.
4. What does Socrates feel will happen when all people are intelligent?
5. Who was Francis Galton's cousin?
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