Outliers: The Story of Success Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Malcolm Gladwell
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Outliers: The Story of Success Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Langan earn a scholarship to college?
(a) Oregon State.
(b) UCLA.
(c) MIT.
(d) Reed.

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

3. How many of the musicians make it to the highest level of musicianship through talent alone?
(a) 10 percent.
(b) 40 percent.
(c) 25 percent.
(d) 0 percent.

4. What is the single most important reason for the success of a group of musicians Ericcson studies?
(a) Practice.
(b) Parental support.
(c) Innate ability.
(d) Exposure at an early age.

5. What computer language does Joy help create?
(a) FORTRAN.
(b) JAVA.
(c) COBAL.
(d) HTML.

6. From what does the title "The Matthew Effect" get its name?
(a) A young man who won 6 Olympic gold medals at the games in Finland in 1952.
(b) The name of a chess prodigy who has the highest IQ ever recorded.
(c) The book of Matthew in the New Testament.
(d) A movie that was only shown in theaters for a couple weeks.

7. What band does Gladwell examine in this chapter?
(a) The Doors.
(b) Led Zeppelin.
(c) The Beatles.
(d) Herman's Hermits.

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

9. What does Gladwell delay discussing until the next chapter?
(a) The rest of Terman's story.
(b) The rest of Langan's story.
(c) How to use innate intelligence even if you do not have a high IQ.
(d) Why highly intelligent people are seldom successful.

10. How are Oppenheimer's social skills?
(a) Poor.
(b) Barely adequate.
(c) Good.
(d) Extremely high.

11. What does Joy cheat a program to obtain?
(a) Codes for using all the available programs.
(b) Codes for the university's class schedules.
(c) Codes for the university's grades.
(d) Unlimited time on the computer.

12. What do the residents of Roseto reconstruct?
(a) An American version of the structure of European society.
(b) An experiment in moving from a lower to middle class.
(c) An experiment in liberality.
(d) An American version of their Italian homeland.

13. Where does Langan once make an appearance that Gladwell mentions?
(a) A Senate investigation committee.
(b) A chess meet.
(c) A television quiz show.
(d) A group of anthropologists in Brazil.

14. What does the town of Roseto have in great abundance when Wolf is conducting his investigations?
(a) A sense of community.
(b) Money.
(c) Leisure time.
(d) Structure.

15. Where does this band get their start playing?
(a) Paris, France.
(b) Dublin, Ireland.
(c) Hamburg, Germany.
(d) Birmingham, England.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does this band seem to come out of nowhere to rocket to stardom?

2. What health issue is rarely seen in Roseto at the time Wolf visits the town?

3. What is the main business of Roseto in the early years of its founding?

4. To whom does Gladwell compare Oppenheimer?

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

(see the answer keys)

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