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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. What does Socrates believe all people should be?
(a) Leaders
(b) Educated
(c) Argumentative
(d) Honest

2. Bean compared the _______ of blacks and whites to prove his view of the inferiority of blacks.
(a) heights
(b) eyes
(c) arm lengths
(d) brains

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

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

5. The answer to #48 also tried to show the entities with a higher ranking had to repeat the _________ of those with lower ranking.
(a) work
(b) illnesses
(c) growth stages
(d) education

Short Answer Questions

1. Motor functions are performed at the _________ of the brain.

2. The answer to #48 said that humans were distinguished from _________ by the human's ability to improve himself.

3. Who was Francis Galton's cousin?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is biological determinism used in regards to the measurement of intelligence of people in society?

2. Describe and define the idea of biological determinism.

3. If given the races of Indian, Black, and White, how would these be ranked, according to the early craniometry methods?

4. Why did Broca feel women should be denied the benefits of education?

5. What did Blumenbach believe the anatomical structure differences between blacks and whites were the result of?

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

7. Who are two of the famous figures from history who are noted as believing in the inferiority of the blacks?

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

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

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

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