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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 does Joy do almost day in and day out at college?
(a) Program.
(b) Play.
(c) Brainstorm with other computer geeks.
(d) Test his mettle against other geeks.

2. What does Lewis Terman begin doing in the 1920s?
(a) Following the lives of very intelligent children.
(b) Trying to measure resistance to intelligence.
(c) Trying to raise IQ scores through rigorous training.
(d) Trying to develop a non-biased IQ test.

3. What health issue is rarely seen in Roseto at the time Wolf visits the town?
(a) Strokes.
(b) Lung cancer.
(c) Polio.
(d) Heart disease.

4. With whom does Bill Gates found Microsoft?
(a) Bill Joy.
(b) He founds it by himself.
(c) Paul Allen.
(d) Steve Jobs.

5. Why are children born in a certain part of the year more likely to stand out?
(a) If they are born in the summer, they practice more.
(b) They have more growth than the younger ones of the same year.
(c) They are called first to play on teams.
(d) There is no likelihood that one child will stand out over another.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Wolf visit Roseto?

2. Who is Bill Joy?

3. What does Gladwell delay discussing until the next chapter?

4. What is the main business of Roseto in the early years of its founding?

5. What makes Wolf think it is not the region that is healthy?

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