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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through American Polygeny and Craniometry before Darwin.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of "An American Dilemma?"
(a) Stephen Gould
(b) Gunnar Myrdal
(c) Socrates
(d) Benjamin Franklin

2. Each person is assigned a single ________ that determines his ranking on the scale.
(a) number
(b) test
(c) chance
(d) measurement

3. Louis from #55 believed that there were different centers of _________.
(a) creation
(b) possibility
(c) life
(d) races

4. 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.
(a) biological evolution
(b) biological destiny
(c) biological determinism
(d) biological transfiguration

5. Which was the second-ranked race for the practitioners of racial ranking?
(a) Chinese
(b) Blacks
(c) Whites
(d) Indians

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the data analyst for the answer to #55?

2. Who was the skull collector that had more than one thousand different skulls?

3. What does Socrates feel will happen when all people are intelligent?

4. The answer to #55 was known as a _________ because he looked for small differences between species.

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

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