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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) frontal lobe
(b) amygdalla
(c) corpus callosum
(d) genus

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

3. Hume believed there was never a __________ nation that wasn't made of white men.
(a) conflict ridden
(b) civilized
(c) productive
(d) useless

4. 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) Polygenism
(c) Racial ranking
(d) Monogenism

5. Where was Robert Bennett Bean a physician?
(a) Massachusetts
(b) Virginia
(c) Ohio
(d) Texas

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

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

8. It is logical to assume that mentality and ____________ are located in the brain.
(a) intelligence
(b) potential
(c) spirit
(d) logic

9. Who were like white adolescents?
(a) Adult Mongolians
(b) White children
(c) Black children
(d) Adult blacks

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

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

12. Science means looking for the ________ based on facts.
(a) answer
(b) reality
(c) theory
(d) truth

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

14. The argument of _______________ is the basis for believing that measuring the intelligence of an individual allows a measure of worth or value to be attached.
(a) biological destiny
(b) biological transfiguration
(c) biological evolution
(d) biological determinism

15. The main question becomes, can ________ change the status of the inferior group?
(a) education
(b) medication
(c) DNA
(d) environment

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The individual's social and economic status is determined by biology so any attempt to make changes has to be _________.

4. What kind of disease can cause the brain to diminish in size before death?

5. Who is the author of "An American Dilemma?"

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