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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. Experts claimed it was no good to __________ blacks.
(a) educate
(b) study
(c) understand
(d) listen to

2. Science means looking for the ________ based on facts.
(a) theory
(b) reality
(c) truth
(d) answer

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

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

5. "For the past two centuries, scientific claims have become the primary agent for validating Plato's ________."
(a) Story
(b) Argument
(c) Myth
(d) Life

Short Answer Questions

1. Hume believed there was never a __________ nation that wasn't made of white men.

2. Which Socrates work is Gould discussing at the opening of this book?

3. Socrates' friend does not believe his ideas, saying that it is a lie and that ________ generations won't believe it, but ________ generations might.

4. What other kind of testing, besides head measurement, can begin to measure the intelligence of a person?

5. Who was Francis Galton's cousin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Serres, in relation to the polygenism movement? What did he study and find to be true?

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

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

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

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

6. What did David Hume believe about white men?

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

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

9. Describe and define the idea of biological determinism.

10. What does Gould want to define ranking as?

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