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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is the author of "An American Dilemma?"
(a) Gunnar Myrdal
(b) Benjamin Franklin
(c) Stephen Gould
(d) Socrates

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

5. Louis Pierre Gratiolet wanted to prove that __________ brains were bigger than __________ brains.
(a) German, French
(b) French, German
(c) German, American
(d) American, French

6. According to Gould, Broca's studies were __________ by his choice of what to observe to provide that white brains were larger than black brains.
(a) faulty
(b) complete
(c) truthful
(d) biased

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

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

9. Ranking is used to determine that various disadvantaged groups are ______________.
(a) growing
(b) exemplary
(c) unnecessary
(d) inferior

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

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

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

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

14. What does Socrates believe all people should be?
(a) Leaders
(b) Argumentative
(c) Educated
(d) Honest

15. It was thought that black brains could not ____________ or absorb information.
(a) understand
(b) handle
(c) hear
(d) believe

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the study of measuring the human head in order to assess intelligence called?

2. Which was the top-ranked race in practitioners of racial ranking?

3. What was Francis Galton's book published in 1869?

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

5. Each person is assigned a single ________ that determines his ranking on the scale.

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