View a FREE sample

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. What is the computer center where Joy goes to college like at that time?
(a) Just beginning.
(b) In the top 25 percent of university computer programs.
(c) In the top 10 percent of university computer programs.
(d) The best in the world.

2. What does Roger notice about the majority of the hockey players in the game he is watching?
(a) Most are all born close to midnight.
(b) Most are at least 180 cm. tall.
(c) Most are born in the first three months of the year.
(d) Most are all at least 70 kg. in weight.

3. What does Gladwell say has a threshold?
(a) Tolerance.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) The accuracy of IQ tests.
(d) Statistics.

4. 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) Names, position, birth date, hometown.
(d) Just birth date.

5. What opportunity does Joy have that few students had at that time?
(a) The opportunity to spend 10,000 hours on programming.
(b) The opportunity to spend 1,000 hours on programming.
(c) The opportunity to study the results of his coding.
(d) The opportunity to spend 15,000 hours on programming.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With whom does Bill Gates found Microsoft?

3. What is the Stanford-Binet test?

4. What is the name of the hockey team Gladwell examines in detail?

5. What does Gladwell say one has to have to gain success?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 307 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample