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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 8, Rice Paddies and Math Tests.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the Howards and Turners?
(a) Two families who continuously intermarry.
(b) Two families who go into the garment business in Harlan.
(c) Two large families who settle in Harlan.
(d) Two families who go into the mining business in Harlan.

2. What does Gladwell call the culture of many people who settle in Kentucky?
(a) Culture of belief.
(b) Culture of honor.
(c) Culture of knowledge.
(d) Culture of religion.

3. Why do Flom and his colleagues take on proxy wars?
(a) They enjoy figuring out how to keep it just legal.
(b) They are excluded from taking more respectable work.
(c) They like the excitement of it.
(d) They are able to save the companies a great deal of money.

4. What do the ask some college-aged men to do?
(a) Sit in a room alone for 24 hours.
(b) Refrain from talking to any woman for 72 hours.
(c) Fast for 24 hours.
(d) Fill out a questionaire.

5. What occasionally erupts into violence and murder?
(a) Competition to buy potential mining land.
(b) A yearly festival in Harlan.
(c) A feud between the Howards and Turners.
(d) Competition to hire garment workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does it crash?

2. What does Wolf learn when he examines the diets of the people of Roseto?

3. From what does the title "The Matthew Effect" get its name?

4. What opportunity does Joy have that few students had at that time?

5. Who is most likely to get into gifted programs in the school system Gladwell mentions?

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