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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 is one type of work Joe Flom does when he is just out of college?
(a) Buying and selling goods at trade shows.
(b) Working with indigent patients at a public hospital.
(c) A take over of a public company.
(d) Whatever he is told to do.

2. Gladwell says the Borgenichts are successful but never what?
(a) Dishonest.
(b) Wealthy.
(c) Pretentious.
(d) Ambitious.

3. Why does the pilot have difficulty seeing the runway?
(a) The electricity is off.
(b) Heavy fog.
(c) Heavy smoke.
(d) Heavy rain.

4. What is the KIPP Academy?
(a) A private, well-funded elementary school.
(b) A public high school.
(c) A private, well-funded high school.
(d) The school that Marita goes to.

5. What neighborhood feeds into KIPP Academy?
(a) An upper-class area.
(b) One of the worst in the city.
(c) An upper, middle-class area.
(d) It draws from the entire New York City.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often does the rice farmer have to tend to the rice paddies?

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

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

4. What is one characteristic of a rice paddy?

5. What do some countries consider doing with Korean Airlines?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Joe Flom work for a large, prestigious law group when he graduates from law school?

2. What are proxy wars?

3. How does Harlan gain notoriety in its early days?

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

5. What is entailed in growing rice?

6. Who is Joe Flom?

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

8. Why is Flom willing to work proxy wars?

9. How is a work ethic related to growing rice?

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

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