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maychende

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In which country were more than 70,000 people legally sterilized for deviations such as drunkeness, criminality, sexual perversion, and feeblemindedness, over a period of about 70 years?
 
  a. United States
  b. USSR
  c. Singapore
  d. Nazi Germany

Question 2

The idea that the human race can be improved by controlling hereditary factors was a theory called
 
  a. euryoky.
  b. eustacy.
  c. euglenics.
  d. eugenics.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: a. United States

Answer to Question 2

Answer: d. eugenics.



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