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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Stanford-Binet test?
(a) A test for intelligence.
(b) A test for mutant genes in a family line.
(c) A test for behavior psychosis.
(d) A test for unusual blood patterns.

2. What does Terman believe will be true of individuals with high IQ scores?
(a) They will be social misfits.
(b) They will be the ones who create most of the inventions that are patented.
(c) They will be more often on the fringes of society.
(d) They will be successful adults.

3. With whom does Bill Gates found Microsoft?
(a) Paul Allen.
(b) He founds it by himself.
(c) Bill Joy.
(d) Steve Jobs.

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

5. What is the age when this countries hockey play is at the pinnacle of success for young people?
(a) 12-14.
(b) 21-25.
(c) 17-19.
(d) 14-15.

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

7. Which country's public school system has a similar effect to that found in Hungarian and Czechoslovakian soccer leagues?
(a) British.
(b) French.
(c) Canadian.
(d) American.

8. What opportunity does Joy have that few students had at that time?
(a) The opportunity to spend 15,000 hours on programming.
(b) The opportunity to study the results of his coding.
(c) The opportunity to spend 10,000 hours on programming.
(d) The opportunity to spend 1,000 hours on programming.

9. What is the name of the hockey team Gladwell examines in detail?
(a) Coyote of Fortune.
(b) Medicine Hat Tigers.
(c) Medicine Wheel.
(d) Wolf Moon Raiders.

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

11. What group of people founded Roseto, Pennsylvania?
(a) Swedish immigrants.
(b) Irish immigrants.
(c) Italian immigrants.
(d) German immigrants.

12. What data does the table that Gladwell consults to theorize the success of some of the best hockey players in the country include?
(a) Names, position, birth date, hometown.
(b) Just names and hometown.
(c) Just birth date.
(d) Just names and position.

13. What was the leading killer of men under the age of 65 in the 1950s?
(a) Car accidents.
(b) Heart attacks.
(c) Infectious diseases.
(d) Stroke.

14. From what country are the hockey players that Gladwell discusses?
(a) The United States.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Russia.
(d) Canada.

15. From what town in Europe are most of the early residents of Roseto, Pennsylvania?
(a) Naples.
(b) Lucera.
(c) Rome.
(d) Roseto.

Short Answer Questions

1. What keeps Langan from talking his way into some class changes at the second college he attends?

2. What does Oppenheimer have difficulty with when he is young?

3. What time period is the first example of an outlier from?

4. Who is Roger Barnsley?

5. What does Gladwell say one has to have to gain success?

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