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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Real Error of Cyril Burt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If inferiority is cultural, then it can be changed by __________ factors
(a) educational
(b) governmental
(c) environmental
(d) biological

2. The craniometry argument is the first __________ argument that has been offered.
(a) plausible
(b) reliable
(c) scientific
(d) logical

3. Who believes blacks are inferior but that intelligence should not be tied to the right for freedom?
(a) Red liners
(b) Racial ranking staff
(c) Hard liners
(d) Soft liners

4. Sir Cyril Burt was a medical tester who studied ___________.
(a) white adults
(b) blacks
(c) idiots
(d) twins

5. Where was Leon Kamin, the researcher who discovered Burt's flaws, a psychologist at?
(a) Brown
(b) Harvard
(c) Yale
(d) Princeton

Short Answer Questions

1. Eysenck thought that those with ______ rapidly developing skills (as mentioned in #100) also had lower IQ scores.

2. Spearman found that intelligence is a ____________ thing.

3. Spearman also found there is a _______ substrate for intelligence except that this can be affected by outside factors.

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

5. In America, the theory of polygeny was supported by Louis __________.

(see the answer key)

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