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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. E.D. Cope based his theory in #92 on the idea that the ____________ brought on earlier maturation.
(a) lack of sun
(b) many wartimes
(c) cooler climate
(d) warmer climate

2. What kinds of measures did Binet turn his attention to when he realized skull measuring wasn't effective?
(a) Foot
(b) Spiritual
(c) Psychological
(d) Fingers and toes

3. Havelock Ellis was a scientist who claimed the superiority of __________ during this period.
(a) children
(b) women
(c) men
(d) elderly people

4. "[T]he child represents a ____________ adult ancestor."
(a) comparable
(b) younger
(c) unique
(d) primitive

5. The answer to #93 caused a slowdown in ____________, leading to inferiority.
(a) sexual characteristics
(b) development
(c) skin coloring
(d) hair coloring

6. Cesare Lombroso thought that ____________ behavior is hereditary.
(a) social
(b) sexual
(c) criminal
(d) political

7. Binet was commissioned in 1904 to find a way to identify children who ______________.
(a) were autistic
(b) were bad at math
(c) needed special help in school
(d) were unteachable

8. What outside factors are being alluded to in #151?
(a) Mental
(b) Environmental
(c) Sociological
(d) Physical

9. The field of ________ sciences was redefined during the 19th century.
(a) health
(b) skeletal
(c) life
(d) mental

10. Binet also noticed differences between the figures collected by himself and by his student, ___________.
(a) Morton
(b) John
(c) Paul
(d) Simon

11. Sir Cyril Burt was a medical tester who studied ___________.
(a) idiots
(b) twins
(c) blacks
(d) white adults

12. Havelock found that _________ males were more effeminate.
(a) craftsworking
(b) rural
(c) older
(d) rrban

13. Burt's papers and data were ____________, which seems to be when his falsifications began.
(a) destroyed
(b) archived
(c) assembled into books
(d) moved

14. Members of the inferior group were always compared with ________ children.
(a) Indian
(b) black
(c) young
(d) white

15. The general intellectual knowledge of the child was calculated by subtracting the ________ age from his true chronological age.
(a) mental
(b) assumed
(c) school
(d) head size

Short Answer Questions

1. Binet believed that not all intelligence was ___________.

2. Gould felt that Eysenck's arguments are not based on ___________ facts.

3. "Mental testing becomes a theory for enhancing ___________ through proper education."

4. Goddard was trying to develop a _____________ scale to measure intelligence.

5. What was the nationality of H. J. Eysenck?

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