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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was a 19th century anatomist who believed in the theory of polygenism?
(a) Gould
(b) Serres
(c) Broca
(d) Blumenbach

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

4. Broca's numbers were based on his ______________, according to Gould.
(a) observations
(b) research
(c) family
(d) mathematics

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who feels that blacks are inferior and therefore deserve the status of a slave?

2. What means there is some sort of ordering that is used in assigning individuals to their relevant spot?

3. Who was the skull collector that had more than one thousand different skulls?

4. Who was the data analyst for the answer to #55?

5. What did Gould see Broca had formed before he ever started his research?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gould want to study in relation to the science related to the arguments for biological determinism?

2. Describe and define the idea of biological determinism.

3. Define the idea of monogenism.

4. What are the two views that resulted in the study of racial inferiority?

5. What is Socrates' idea as to how classes and categories will be formed in relation to people in a society?

6. What were the results of Bean's work, as he found the differences between the races and the genders?

7. What did Robert Bennett Bean study as an investigator into craniometry?

8. What did David Hume believe about white men?

9. What does Gunnar Myrdal have to say about the situation of ranking people in society?

10. What were Broca's numbers based upon, according to Gould's examination of his studies?

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