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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. The answer to #55 was known as a _________ because he looked for small differences between species.
(a) species expert
(b) splitter
(c) microcosm expert
(d) striker

2. What is the one category to which Socrates does NOT say people belong?
(a) Auxiliaries
(b) Peasants
(c) Craftsman
(d) Rules

3. The answer to #48 said that humans were distinguished from _________ by the human's ability to improve himself.
(a) blacks
(b) animals
(c) slaves
(d) savages

4. 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?
(a) Monogenism
(b) Polygenism
(c) Racial ranking
(d) Recapitulation

5. Gould goes on to say that science has not been constrained by _________.
(a) data
(b) numbers
(c) facts
(d) ideas

Short Answer Questions

1. Gould wants to know if science added the ___________ data, or......

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

3. 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.

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

5. "Plato relied upon dialectic, the Church upon __________."

(see the answer key)

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