Question 1

______________ defined the American "racial worldview" that includes the idea that behaviors are inherited and unchanging.

Accepted Answer

Audrey Smedley

Question 2

Forensic anthropologists go about the job identifying race for law enforcement officials assumes that racial traits are static.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 3

There is now solid evidence of a genetic link between race and intelligence.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 4

The notion of biological race started

Accepted Answer

A)   with the Romans.
B)   with the Greeks.
C)   with the Age of Exploration.
D)   in Genesis.

Question 5

Which of the following is a true statement?

Accepted Answer

A)   Scientists quickly took Comte de Buffon search for the environmental variables responsible for human biological diversity.
B)   By the end of the 18th century, the folk belief of races became legitimate scientific facts.
C)   By the end of the 18th century, the search for archetypes was rejected.
D)   By the end of the 18th century, scientists rejected the folk beliefs of racial differences.

Question 6

Franz Boas, early 20th Century anthropologist,

Accepted Answer

A)   felt that there were no inferior or superior races.
B)   worked with South American Natives and found their art wanting.
C)   supported the forced sterilization of inferior people.
D)   supported separate but equal schools.

Question 7

______________ laid the basis for the modern taxonomic system.

Accepted Answer

The answer of ______________ laid the basis for the modern...

Question 8

______________ a biological anthropology hypothesized that the different human races evolved separately from Homo erectus.

Accepted Answer

The answer of ______________ a biological anthropology hypothesized that the...

Question 9

Comte de Buffon (1707-1788)

Accepted Answer

A)   popularized the term race.
B)   accepted monogenesis.
C)   thought biological variation was related to the environment.
D)   any or all of these

Question 10

In 1962 ______________ argued that most human biological diversity occurred in clines.

Accepted Answer

The answer of In 1962 ______________ argued that most human...

Question 11

According to Audrey Smedley (2007) the American racial worldview

Accepted Answer

A)   includes the notion that all men are created equal.
B)   is that human differences are the result of adaptation and are not fixed.
C)   is that there are no differences in morality between different human subpopulation.
D)   holds the belief that human population are discrete units that are inherently unequal in endowment.

Question 12

The ancient Greeks

Accepted Answer

A)   lacked ethnocentrism.
B)   divided the world into Greeks and Non-Greeks based on culture and language.
C)   based slavery on race like the ancient Romans.
D)   believed only Greeks could learn to speak to Greek.

Question 13

The Greeks saw foreigners as barbarians but believed that barbarians could become Greek.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Polgyenism is the belief that

Accepted Answer

A)   God created man and woman once and they dispersed and became the different races.
B)   there the are many versions of Genesis.
C)   God created separate and different peoples that are in fact different species.
D)   accepts the notion of Pre-Adamites.

Question 15

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840)

Accepted Answer

A)   recognized the continuous nature of human biological variation.
B)   argued that biological races did not exist.
C)   proposed three races instead of Linneaus' four.
D)   rejected Plato's notion of the search for archetypes.

Question 16

Human variation includes

Accepted Answer

A)   enzymes.
B)   blood types.
C)   disease susceptibility.
D)   any or all of these

Question 17

Plato's approach to human variation was to find archetypes as opposed to the evolutionary approach of finding the adaptive nature of human diversity.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

In 1942 ______________ argued that the notion of biological race was a dangerous myth.

Accepted Answer

The answer of In 1942 ______________ argued that the notion...

Question 19

During the Roman Empire, slavery was based on the idea of biological inferiority of people made part of the empire by conquest.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Europeans saw Native Americans as inferior to themselves because

Accepted Answer

A)   they were ethnocentric.
B)   they believed that Native Americans were not agriculturists.
C)   Native Americans preferred their own culture over that of the Europeans.
D)   Any or all of these

Exam 4: The History of the Race Concept

______________ defined the American "racial worldview" that includes the idea that behaviors are inherited and unchanging.

Forensic anthropologists go about the job identifying race for law enforcement officials assumes that racial traits are static.

There is now solid evidence of a genetic link between race and intelligence.

The notion of biological race started

Which of the following is a true statement?

Franz Boas, early 20^th Century anthropologist,

______________ laid the basis for the modern taxonomic system.

______________ a biological anthropology hypothesized that the different human races evolved separately from Homo erectus.

Comte de Buffon (1707-1788)

In 1962 ______________ argued that most human biological diversity occurred in clines.

According to Audrey Smedley (2007) the American racial worldview

The ancient Greeks

The Greeks saw foreigners as barbarians but believed that barbarians could become Greek.

Polgyenism is the belief that

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840)

Human variation includes

Plato's approach to human variation was to find archetypes as opposed to the evolutionary approach of finding the adaptive nature of human diversity.

In 1942 ______________ argued that the notion of biological race was a dangerous myth.

During the Roman Empire, slavery was based on the idea of biological inferiority of people made part of the empire by conquest.

Europeans saw Native Americans as inferior to themselves because