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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. Why are children born in a certain part of the year more likely to stand out?
(a) If they are born in the summer, they practice more.
(b) They have more growth than the younger ones of the same year.
(c) There is no likelihood that one child will stand out over another.
(d) They are called first to play on teams.

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

3. What is Oppenheimer able to do even though he has some disadvantages?
(a) Believe in himself.
(b) Make a game plan and stick to it.
(c) Believe in the basic goodness in people.
(d) Convince people to help him.

4. What does Gladwell say is required for someone to succeed?
(a) Being an entrepreneur.
(b) Luck.
(c) High intelligence.
(d) Practical intelligence.

5. Where does Langan end up living?
(a) Rural Missouri.
(b) Rural South Dakota.
(c) Rural Mississippi.
(d) Rural Wyoming.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are children grouped to play hockey in the country Gladwell discusses?

2. What computer language does Joy help create?

3. In what year does Joy start college?

4. What does Joy cheat a program to obtain?

5. Why does Langan despair of publishing his theory?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is Langan at the time Gladwell writes his book?

2. Why is the local physician's claim unusual, and what does Wolf decide to do?

3. What does Anders Ericcson learn in a study he makes of musicians?

4. What is the origination of the title of this chapter, "The Matthew Effect"?

5. What does Wolf finally decide is the reason for the low number of heart disease-related deaths?

6. What are the unusual circumstances in the timing of Bill Joy's career in computer programming?

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

8. 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?

9. What makes Roseto an "outlier" town and how does this fact come to light?

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

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