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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. People with ______ had smaller brain sizes than those who were suddenly killed in accidents.
(a) AIDS
(b) low iron
(c) diseases
(d) children

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

5. According to Gould, science must be viewed in its ________ context since culture and environment also influence facts and theories.
(a) biological
(b) ethnic
(c) racial
(d) social

6. Louis Pierre Gratiolet wanted to prove that __________ brains were bigger than __________ brains.
(a) French, German
(b) German, French
(c) German, American
(d) American, French

7. Where was Robert Bennett Bean a physician?
(a) Ohio
(b) Massachusetts
(c) Texas
(d) Virginia

8. Gould wants to reexamine the existing __________ for craniometry and intelligence testing.
(a) sciences
(b) data sets
(c) scientific researchers
(d) logic

9. Which race was ranked last in the eyes of the practitioners of racial ranking?
(a) Blacks
(b) Whites
(c) Chinese
(d) Indians

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

11. "Plato relied upon dialectic, the Church upon __________."
(a) God
(b) leaders
(c) dogma
(d) faith

12. Ranking is used to determine that various disadvantaged groups are ______________.
(a) growing
(b) unnecessary
(c) exemplary
(d) inferior

13. What means there is some sort of ordering that is used in assigning individuals to their relevant spot?
(a) Scientific study
(b) Biology
(c) Ranking
(d) Theoretic discourse

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

15. What was the most famous work of the man in #59?
(a) Crania
(b) Crania Americana
(c) Crania Astounda
(d) Crania Inca

Short Answer Questions

1. Gould goes on to say that science has not been constrained by _________.

2. Which view was based on the story of Adam and Eve?

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

4. Gould says the claims of inferiority are limited to ____________ even thought race, sex, and social class are tied together.

5. According to Gould, Broca's studies were __________ by his choice of what to observe to provide that white brains were larger than black brains.

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