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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Socrates' friend does not believe his ideas, saying that it is a lie and that ________ generations won't believe it, but ________ generations might.
(a) common, enlightened
(b) present, future
(c) poor, rich
(d) future, present

2. Gould also wants to look for problems in the ___________ data.
(a) racial
(b) philosophical
(c) gender
(d) numerical

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

4. The individual's social and economic status is determined by biology so any attempt to make changes has to be _________.
(a) impossible
(b) useful
(c) costly
(d) unlikely

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gould does not believe that ____________ change reflects changes in social concepts.

2. What kinds of weaknesses is Gould looking to find in the arguments of other scientists presented in this book?

3. Socrates says that class is ____________.

4. "We now encounter the second ____________ - ranking..."

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

(see the answer key)

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