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

2. Paul Broca was a professor of surgery in what city?
(a) Boston
(b) New York
(c) London
(d) Paris

3. Socrates says that class is ____________.
(a) Useful
(b) Predetermined
(c) Unneccesary
(d) Inhumane

4. Black anatomical structure was often compared to that of a __________.
(a) donkey
(b) horse
(c) dog
(d) monkey

5. What is the study of measuring the human head in order to assess intelligence called?
(a) Neurology
(b) Psychology
(c) Cranial-sacral therapy
(d) Craniometry

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Francis Galton have a display in 1884?

2. What is the one category to which Socrates does NOT say people belong?

3. Gould wants to reexamine the existing __________ for craniometry and intelligence testing.

4. Where was Robert Bennett Bean a physician?

5. Did a desire for ______ lead to the questions and data to support a predetermined conclusion?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What did Robert Bennett Bean study as an investigator into craniometry?

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

8. What does Gould want to study in relation to the science related to the arguments for biological determinism?

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

10. Define the idea of polygenism.

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