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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Real Error of Cyril Burt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Intelligence, according to Goddard, came from ________ and nothing else.
(a) books
(b) family lines
(c) race
(d) school

2. Blumenbach believed differences in races might be linked to __________.
(a) climate
(b) DNA
(c) dood
(d) water supply

3. What kinds of weaknesses is Gould looking to find in the arguments of other scientists presented in this book?
(a) Psychological
(b) Scientific
(c) Ethical
(d) Spiritual

4. Gould does not view the studies he will cover as _______ scientific practices.
(a) out of date
(b) silly
(c) bad
(d) simplistic

5. Havelock Ellis was a scientist who claimed the superiority of __________ during this period.
(a) elderly people
(b) children
(c) men
(d) women

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the one category to which Socrates does NOT say people belong?

2. "s" was considered the product of _________ by both Spearman and Burt.

3. Binet was commissioned in 1904 to find a way to identify children who ______________.

4. E.D. Cope based his theory in #92 on the idea that the ____________ brought on earlier maturation.

5. What was Lombroso's theory known as?

(see the answer key)

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