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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 4, The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time period is the first example of an outlier from?
(a) The first decade of the 21st century.
(b) The first half of the 20th century.
(c) Mid-to late 20th century.
(d) The last decade of the 19th century.

2. When does Wolf visit Roseto?
(a) The 1990s.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1988.
(d) The 1950s.

3. Who is Roger Barnsley?
(a) A Swedish exercise physiologist.
(b) A British hockey coach.
(c) A German psychiatrist.
(d) A Canadian psychologist.

4. What does Oppenheimer succeed in getting himself appointed as?
(a) The CIA couterintelligence division.
(b) The leader of the Manhattan Project.
(c) A professorship at MIT.
(d) The FBI's forensics unit.

5. What does Lewis Terman begin doing in the 1920s?
(a) Trying to develop a non-biased IQ test.
(b) Trying to measure resistance to intelligence.
(c) Trying to raise IQ scores through rigorous training.
(d) Following the lives of very intelligent children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joy do almost day in and day out at college?

2. Why does Langan drop out of the second college he attends?

3. With whom does Bill Gates found Microsoft?

4. What does Gladwell call having a higher IQ?

5. What college does Joy attend?

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