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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. Who was Francis Galton's cousin?
(a) Charles Darwin
(b) Benjamin Franklin
(c) Paul Broca
(d) Stephen Gould

3. In America, the theory of polygeny was supported by Louis __________.
(a) Hume
(b) Smith
(c) Agassiz
(d) Agassi

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Did a desire for ______ lead to the questions and data to support a predetermined conclusion?

2. What means there is some sort of ordering that is used in assigning individuals to their relevant spot?

3. What does Socrates believe all people should be?

4. Leaders of the eighteenth and nineteenth century did not dispute __________.

5. Gould does not believe that ____________ change reflects changes in social concepts.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Francis Galton and what did he do for the scientific study of intelligence measurement?

2. Why did Broca feel women should be denied the benefits of education?

3. What is Socrates' idea as to how classes and categories will be formed in relation to people in a society?

4. In the opening of this book, Gould quotes Socrates as saying all people should be educated and that they will belong to whom in order for society to remain stable?

5. What does Gould want to define ranking as?

6. Define the idea of monogenism.

7. How is biological determinism used in regards to the measurement of intelligence of people in society?

8. What were the results of Bean's work, as he found the differences between the races and the genders?

9. What does Gould want to study in relation to the science related to the arguments for biological determinism?

10. Who was Serres, in relation to the polygenism movement? What did he study and find to be true?

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