While paging through some old photographs, you find one showing a relative in front of a storefront that has a sign reading Phrenologist. Why might your relative have gone to see a phrenologist?

a) to obtain a horoscope
b) for an assessment of personality
c) to seek advice about raising children
d) to determine if he or she might be a carrier of a disease


B

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