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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 author of "An American Dilemma" says that Americans and others would only consider the __________ factors when they were forced to.
(a) educational
(b) environmental
(c) biological
(d) spiritual

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

3. Which was the top-ranked race in practitioners of racial ranking?
(a) Indians
(b) Chinese
(c) Whites
(d) Blacks

4. Gould goes on to say that science has not been constrained by _________.
(a) ideas
(b) facts
(c) numbers
(d) data

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gould does not believe that ____________ change reflects changes in social concepts.

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

3. Franklin P. Mall __________ and __________ Bean's work.

4. "We now encounter the second ____________ - ranking..."

5. The craniometry argument is the first __________ argument that has been offered.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was Francis Galton and what did he do for the scientific study of intelligence measurement?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What were some of the additional factors Gratiolet studied in order to determine the effect of brain size?

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