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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. Gould wants to know if science added the ___________ data, or......
(a) legitimate
(b) total
(c) partial
(d) reliable

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

3. What does Gould want to find in science that will support the idea that biological determinism is a result of social prejudice?
(a) Cultural influences
(b) Errors in correlation
(c) Faulty logic
(d) Bad data systems

4. Who was a 19th century anatomist who believed in the theory of polygenism?
(a) Blumenbach
(b) Gould
(c) Serres
(d) Broca

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates believe all people should be?

2. It is logical to assume that mentality and ____________ are located in the brain.

3. Socrates' friend does not believe his ideas, saying that it is a lie and that ________ generations won't believe it, but ________ generations might.

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

5. Gould also wants to look for problems in the ___________ data.

(see the answer key)

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