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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3, The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is most likely to get into gifted programs in the school system Gladwell mentions?
(a) Those who are from the middle class and higher.
(b) Those who were not premature babies.
(c) Those who are the oldest of the year group.
(d) Those whose parents push their child to succeed.

2. What does Gladwell delay discussing until the next chapter?
(a) How to use innate intelligence even if you do not have a high IQ.
(b) The rest of Terman's story.
(c) Why highly intelligent people are seldom successful.
(d) The rest of Langan's story.

3. What does Gladwell conclude about the heart health of Roseto's residents?
(a) The townspeople are exaggerating their good health.
(b) The townspeople are exaggerating their poor health.
(c) The statistics have been skewed.
(d) It is something about the town itself that keeps its residents free from heart disease.

4. Who is Roger Barnsley?
(a) A British hockey coach.
(b) A German psychiatrist.
(c) A Canadian psychologist.
(d) A Swedish exercise physiologist.

5. What does Gladwell find out about soccer leagues in Hungary and Czechoslovakia?
(a) The birth fact is not as pronounced since size is not such a factor in soccer.
(b) The birth factor is more pronounced since physical skills are more critical in soccer.
(c) Those born in the first three months of the year predominate on the elite teams.
(d) There is no correlation between hockey and soccer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the single most important reason for the success of a group of musicians Ericcson studies?

2. Who is Stewart Wolf?

3. How does the country which Gladwell is discussing determine the cut-off date for hockey players?

4. How many of the musicians make it to the highest level of musicianship through talent alone?

5. What does Langan display at a very young age?

(see the answer key)

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