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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the study of measuring the human head in order to assess intelligence called?
(a) Cranial-sacral therapy
(b) Neurology
(c) Craniometry
(d) Psychology

2. David Hume was a believer in the superiority of the _______ and polygeny.
(a) white race
(b) black race
(c) white female
(d) white child

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

4. Experts claimed it was no good to __________ blacks.
(a) listen to
(b) study
(c) understand
(d) educate

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

6. 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

7. If inferiority is cultural, then it can be changed by __________ factors
(a) governmental
(b) educational
(c) environmental
(d) biological

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

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

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

11. Socrates says that class is ____________.
(a) Predetermined
(b) Unneccesary
(c) Useful
(d) Inhumane

12. Who was the skull collector that had more than one thousand different skulls?
(a) Louis
(b) Benjamin Franklin
(c) Stephen Gould
(d) Samuel Morton

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

14. The answer to #48 also said that adult blacks were like _______________.
(a) black children
(b) monkeys
(c) white children
(d) white adolescents

15. What other kind of testing, besides head measurement, can begin to measure the intelligence of a person?
(a) Spiritual
(b) Subliminal
(c) Psychological
(d) Body

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gould want to find in science that will support the idea that biological determinism is a result of social prejudice?

2. Gould also wants to look for problems in the ___________ data.

3. Who was Francis Galton's cousin?

4. The answer to #55 was known as a _________ because he looked for small differences between species.

5. 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?

(see the answer keys)

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