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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Gould, science must be viewed in its ________ context since culture and environment also influence facts and theories.

2. Ranking is used to determine that various disadvantaged groups are ______________.

3. Bean compared the _______ of blacks and whites to prove his view of the inferiority of blacks.

4. Who believes blacks are inferior but that intelligence should not be tied to the right for freedom?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Define the idea of monogenism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. In the opening of this book, Gould quotes Socrates as saying all people should be educated and that they will belong to whom in order for society to remain stable?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The idea of testing children in schools is one that is a normal part of life today, but it can have many issues in its effectiveness and in its logic. Binet understood this, and yet still seems to have created more problems in terms of studying intelligence in children.

Part 1: What are some of the problems that stemmed from Binet's test, related to the idea that intelligence is inevitable?

Part 2: What are some ways that heredity is confused within and between groups in relation to Binet's test?

Part 3: Many American psychologists did not follow Binet's rules for using his tests. What belief did this lead to?

Essay Topic 2

The idea of ranking people is the primary focus of this book. When we can rank people, we can classify them as more or less valuable to society, it seems.

Part 1: What are some of the other benefits of ranking people in this world?

Part 2: What are the disadvantages of ranking people in society?

Part 3: How are some ways we rank people already? Are there already systems of ranking present in this world? What are they? How do they work? Are they effective?

Essay Topic 3

Alfred Binet is prominently studied within "The Mismeasure of Man." His work helped to define the study of human intelligence and paved the way for many more studies in that arena.

Part 1: What was the background of Alfred Binet?

Part 2: What was Binet commissioned to do and how did he set about achieving this goal?

Part 3: What was Binet's major claim to fame in relation to the ranking of human intelligence?

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