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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.
(a) biological transfiguration
(b) biological destiny
(c) biological determinism
(d) biological evolution

2. Gould does not believe that ____________ change reflects changes in social concepts.
(a) racial
(b) cultural
(c) biological
(d) scientific

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(d) out of date

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

5. Who believes blacks are inferior but that intelligence should not be tied to the right for freedom?
(a) Racial ranking staff
(b) Soft liners
(c) Hard liners
(d) Red liners

6. What was Francis Galton's book published in 1869?
(a) Hereditary Genius
(b) Hereditary Explorations
(c) Hereditary Genus
(d) Hereditary and Race

7. Who was the data analyst for the answer to #55?
(a) Milton
(b) Gould
(c) Morton
(d) No one

8. Who is the author of "An American Dilemma?"
(a) Stephen Gould
(b) Socrates
(c) Gunnar Myrdal
(d) Benjamin Franklin

9. The answer to #48 also said that adult blacks were like _______________.
(a) monkeys
(b) black children
(c) white adolescents
(d) white children

10. The author of "An American Dilemma" says that Americans and others would only consider the __________ factors when they were forced to.
(a) environmental
(b) spiritual
(c) biological
(d) educational

11. Who considered that other factors like general health and body size might also affect brain size?
(a) Gratiolet
(b) Blumenbach
(c) Franklin
(d) Broca

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

13. Leaders of the eighteenth and nineteenth century did not dispute __________.
(a) scientists in general
(b) racial ranking
(c) scientific errors
(d) medical findings

14. Bean felt that the ______, or front part of the brain, was smaller in women than in men.
(a) corpus callosum
(b) amygdalla
(c) frontal lobe
(d) genus

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Robert Bennett Bean a physician?

2. Which race was ranked last in the eyes of the practitioners of racial ranking?

3. Louis from #55 believed that there were different centers of _________.

4. What does Socrates feel will happen when all people are intelligent?

5. Broca's numbers were based on his ______________, according to Gould.

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