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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Gould, science must be viewed in its ________ context since culture and environment also influence facts and theories.

2. Ranking is used to determine that various disadvantaged groups are ______________.

3. Where was Robert Bennett Bean a physician?

4. The main question becomes, can ________ change the status of the inferior group?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are 2 of the four points Gould keeps in mind as he examines the studies of the researchers in this book?

3. What is the special designation that craniometry holds in relation to the study of ranking and intelligence?

4. Define the idea of polygenism.

5. In the opening of this book, Gould quotes Socrates as saying all people should be educated and that they will belong to whom in order for society to remain stable?

6. What did Gould find to be the main problem with Paul Broca's work?

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

8. What does Gould logically assume to be true in relation to the contents of the brain?

9. What does Gould want to define ranking as?

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

(see the answer keys)

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