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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the conclusion Terman comes to about high IQ children?
(a) They succeed or fail at the same rate as other children.
(b) They succeed just five percent more often than other children.
(c) They succeed fifty percent more often than other children.
(d) They actually fail more often than other children.

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

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

5. What is the first half Matthew effect?
(a) A high IQ is required for chess success.
(b) Those who have much will get even more.
(c) If it can't be seen, it can't be talked about and it can't win an Academy award.
(d) When you're on a roll, sometimes you win just because your success intimidates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does access via terminals replace at Joy's college?

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

3. What is Oppenheimer able to do even though he has some disadvantages?

4. Why does Langan lose his scholarship?

5. What do Barnsley and a colleague find when they do further investigation into the entire country's professional hockey teams?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gladwell say a surface examination of the Canadian hockey league system would suggest?

2. How does Joy and some of his fellow students make it possible to use the computers more than is allowed and what is the result?

3. What does having a high IQ give a person?

4. What does IQ stand for and who developed a test to measure it?

5. To what does Gladwell attribute the difference between Langan and Oppenheimer?

6. How are students in the hockey leagues grouped and what is the way the children move into other leagues?

7. What does Gladwell say Langan does not seem to be able to do?

8. Who is Robert Oppenheimer and what does he accomplish?

9. Who is Bill Joy and what did he do?

10. What experiment does Lewis Terman carry out beginning in the 1920s?

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