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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 6, Harlan, Kentucky.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Langan unprepared to do?
(a) Assert himself in an urban setting.
(b) Accept mediocrity.
(c) Push past his fears.
(d) Work hard.

2. What data does the table that Gladwell consults to theorize the success of some of the best hockey players in the country include?
(a) Just names and hometown.
(b) Just names and position.
(c) Just birth date.
(d) Names, position, birth date, hometown.

3. Why are children born in a certain part of the year more likely to stand out?
(a) They are called first to play on teams.
(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) If they are born in the summer, they practice more.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one group of people worldwide who have developed the culture Gladwell examines in Kentucky?

2. What does Lewis Terman begin doing in the 1920s?

3. What is not unique in Harlan?

4. Who is Roger Barnsley?

5. What computer language does Joy help create?

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