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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. Motor functions are performed at the _________ of the brain.
(a) right side
(b) left side
(c) front
(d) back
2. What other kind of testing, besides head measurement, can begin to measure the intelligence of a person?
(a) Psychological
(b) Body
(c) Subliminal
(d) Spiritual
3. Where was Robert Bennett Bean a physician?
(a) Texas
(b) Virginia
(c) Ohio
(d) Massachusetts
4. "For the past two centuries, scientific claims have become the primary agent for validating Plato's ________."
(a) Life
(b) Story
(c) Argument
(d) Myth
5. Bean compared the _______ of blacks and whites to prove his view of the inferiority of blacks.
(a) eyes
(b) brains
(c) heights
(d) arm lengths
Short Answer Questions
1. Which was the second-ranked race for the practitioners of racial ranking?
2. Which view was based on the story of Adam and Eve?
3. Blumenbach believed differences in races might be linked to __________.
4. What does Socrates believe all people should be?
5. Who feels that blacks are inferior and therefore deserve the status of a slave?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Broca feel women should be denied the benefits of education?
2. What does Gunnar Myrdal have to say about the situation of ranking people in society?
3. What are 2 of the four points Gould keeps in mind as he examines the studies of the researchers in this book?
4. What did David Hume believe about white men?
5. Describe and define the idea of biological determinism.
6. Who are two of the famous figures from history who are noted as believing in the inferiority of the blacks?
7. What were the results of Bean's work, as he found the differences between the races and the genders?
8. What does Gould want to define ranking as?
9. What does Gould have to say about science in relation to the facts it collects?
10. Define the idea of monogenism.
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