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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do many of the children of the Borgenichts family and those like them become?
(a) Doctors and lawyers.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Artists in various areas.
(d) Businessmen.

2. Who are the Hatfields and McCoys?
(a) The owners of the most profitable coal mines in West Virginia.
(b) Another feuding family in Kentucky.
(c) Two other garment-industry families in Tennessee.
(d) The most wealthy families in Kentucky.

3. How are these proxy wars characterized?
(a) Illegal.
(b) Hostile and messy.
(c) Wasteful.
(d) Borderline illegal.

4. What does a feudal lord take from his farmers?
(a) A small portion of their crops.
(b) About half of the farmers' crops.
(c) None of the crops.
(d) The larger portion of their crops.

5. What is one way in which Flom's life is affected by the second lesson of Joe Flom?
(a) He is born in a time when there is a high birth rate in the United States.
(b) He is born in a time when law is not a popular field in the United States.
(c) He is born in a time when the laws are favorable for Jewish people in the United States.
(d) He is born in a time when there is a low birth rate in the United States.

6. What is the Colombian pilot's attitude when he communicates the plane's situation to the air traffic controller?
(a) Intense.
(b) Angry.
(c) He does not mention their fuel situation at all.
(d) Casual.

7. What pattern does Gladwell examine in Kentucky?
(a) Families who go into the tobacco industry.
(b) Family feuds.
(c) Families who go into the garment industry.
(d) Families who go into coal mining.

8. Why do farmers in Europe in the Middle Ages go into a sort of hibernation state?
(a) To keep their bodies from overwork.
(b) To rest for the hard work in the Spring.
(c) To conserve energy and to eat less.
(d) To keep from starving.

9. Where do Cohen and Nisbett conduct an experiment?
(a) University of Maine.
(b) University of Michigan.
(c) University of Illinois.
(d) University of Kentucky.

10. When is Harlan settled?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1819.

11. What is the PDI of people of the United States?
(a) About in the middle.
(b) Low.
(c) High.
(d) It's never been measured.

12. What do the Borgenichts have that is in demand in the United States?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Knowledge of wine making.
(c) Skills as tailors.
(d) Skills as artists.

13. What grade level is the school?
(a) Community college.
(b) Middle.
(c) Elementary.
(d) High.

14. What cultural legacy among Asian peoples does Gladwell discuss?
(a) Honor.
(b) Samurai.
(c) Rice paddies.
(d) Calligraphy.

15. How often does the rice farmer have to tend to the rice paddies?
(a) Two or three times a month.
(b) Just in the summer.
(c) Continually.
(d) Just in the Spring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Korean airlines determine about their flight crew members?

2. What do the ask some college-aged men to do?

3. What do the pilot and co-pilot of a Colombian airplane that crashes fail to effectively communicate?

4. Why does the pilot have difficulty seeing the runway?

5. Of what does Gladwell say the average student needs more?

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