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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Measuring Bodies.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Gould, science must be viewed in its ________ context since culture and environment also influence facts and theories.
(a) ethnic
(b) biological
(c) racial
(d) social

2. Havelock Ellis was a scientist who claimed the superiority of __________ during this period.
(a) women
(b) elderly people
(c) children
(d) men

3. According to Lombroso, the genes of the past are contained in the hereditary of the individual and the ___________ surfaces at times.
(a) shyness
(b) behavior
(c) playfulness
(d) aggression towards women

4. What other kind of testing, besides head measurement, can begin to measure the intelligence of a person?
(a) Spiritual
(b) Body
(c) Psychological
(d) Subliminal

5. Hume believed there was never a __________ nation that wasn't made of white men.
(a) productive
(b) conflict ridden
(c) useless
(d) civilized

Short Answer Questions

1. Gould does not view the studies he will cover as _______ scientific practices.

2. Which view was based on the idea that inferior races can not be linked to the whites because they started from a separate group of DNA and people?

3. Where was Robert Bennett Bean a physician?

4. Gould calls biological determinism a theory of _____________ that has had a profound effect on many people.

5. People with ______ had smaller brain sizes than those who were suddenly killed in accidents.

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