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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 is the main business of Roseto in the early years of its founding?
(a) Wine.
(b) Farming.
(c) Wool.
(d) Slate quarry.

2. What is the single most important reason for the success of a group of musicians Ericcson studies?
(a) Exposure at an early age.
(b) Parental support.
(c) Practice.
(d) Innate ability.

3. What do some players from the highest young people's hockey team sometimes go on to do?
(a) There is no common thing that some of the young people do.
(b) Play professionally.
(c) Teach hockey in colleges.
(d) Coach professional hockey teams.

4. What is the conclusion Terman comes to about high IQ children?
(a) They succeed or fail at the same rate as other children.
(b) They succeed fifty percent more often than other children.
(c) They succeed just five percent more often than other children.
(d) They actually fail more often than other children.

5. When does this band seem to come out of nowhere to rocket to stardom?
(a) 1970s.
(b) Late 1950s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) Mid-1980s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gladwell conclude about the heart health of Roseto's residents?

2. What is the first half Matthew effect?

3. What does Joy cheat a program to obtain?

4. In what year does Joy start college?

5. What does Gladwell say Roseto, Pennsylvania is an example of?

(see the answer key)

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