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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. Who was Francis Galton's cousin?
(a) Charles Darwin
(b) Stephen Gould
(c) Benjamin Franklin
(d) Paul Broca

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

3. Craniometry is used for the _______ status of the people ranked at the bottom of the hierarchy.
(a) intelligence
(b) educational
(c) inferior
(d) racial

4. Where did Francis Galton have a display in 1884?
(a) International Exposition
(b) World Fair
(c) His home
(d) Nobel Prize banquet

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gould wants to know if science added the ___________ data, or......

2. The argument of _______________ is the basis for believing that measuring the intelligence of an individual allows a measure of worth or value to be attached.

3. Leaders of the eighteenth and nineteenth century did not dispute __________.

4. Within what century did science become fascinated with numbers?

5. If inferiority is cultural, then it can be changed by __________ factors

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are the two groups Gould identifies within the idea of ranking blacks and other races?

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

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

6. What does Gould have to say about science in relation to the facts it collects?

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

8. Define the idea of monogenism.

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

10. What does Gould want to define ranking as?

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