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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. What was the leading killer of men under the age of 65 in the 1950s?
(a) Car accidents.
(b) Infectious diseases.
(c) Stroke.
(d) Heart attacks.

2. When does Wolf visit Roseto?
(a) 1962.
(b) The 1990s.
(c) The 1950s.
(d) 1988.

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

4. What is the Memorial Cup?
(a) The highest trophy of the American Hockey League.
(b) The highest trophy of the Russian Hockey League.
(c) The highest trophy of the Swedish Hockey League.
(d) The highest trophy of the Canadian Hockey League.

5. What makes Wolf think it is not the region that is healthy?
(a) He does think the region has some part in the town's health.
(b) Most of the towns in the region have similar health patterns as the rest of the United States.
(c) There is a great amount of environmental pollution in that area.
(d) There are two nearby towns that have heart disease at higher rates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who developed the Stanford-Binet test?

2. Which country's public school system has a similar effect to that found in Hungarian and Czechoslovakian soccer leagues?

3. What does Gladwell say about the residents of Roseto as far as their health?

4. What do some players from the highest young people's hockey team sometimes go on to do?

5. What is the first half Matthew effect?

(see the answer key)

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