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

2. 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 low birth rate in the United States.
(b) He is born in a time when there is a high birth rate 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 law is not a popular field in the United States.

3. What is the most important thing in the type of culture Gladwell examines in Kentucky?
(a) Love of the land.
(b) Loyalty to country.
(c) Frugal living.
(d) Loyalty to clan or family.

4. Of what does Gladwell say the average student needs more?
(a) Better facilities.
(b) School.
(c) Summer break.
(d) Breaks throughout the year.

5. What does Korean Airlines perform?
(a) A extensive retrofit of their planes.
(b) Fire all of the employees.
(c) An internal audit.
(d) An upgrade to their planes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the Howards and Turners?

2. What does Korean airlines realize is a large part of their problem?

3. What percentage above the average student do KIPP students attend school?

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

5. From what region of the country are the angriest subjects?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Flom willing to work proxy wars?

2. What does Gladwell say about early American educational theorists?

3. What is the second lesson of Joe Flom?

4. What experiment do Dov Cohen and Richard Nisbett conduct in the 1990s?

5. Describe the plane crash of Korean Airlines Flight 801 in 1997.

6. What is Gladwell's interpretation of Cohen and Nisbett's experiment?

7. What evidence is there that summer vacations may be hindering the success of many students?

8. What does Suren Ratwatte say about a Colombian airliner that crashes in New York?

9. Where is Harlan, and who settled it?

10. How does understanding math relate to growing rice?

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