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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Broca's numbers were based on his ______________, according to Gould.
(a) mathematics
(b) family
(c) observations
(d) research

2. On what did Bean gather information?
(a) Shoe size
(b) Corpus callosum
(c) Family intelligence
(d) Social status

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

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

5. Gould says the claims of inferiority are limited to ____________ even thought race, sex, and social class are tied together.
(a) one setting
(b) one scientist
(c) one group
(d) one study

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the author of "An American Dilemma?"

3. Louis Pierre Gratiolet wanted to prove that __________ brains were bigger than __________ brains.

4. Where did Francis Galton have a display in 1884?

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

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