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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 9, Marita's Bargain.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Gladwell call the culture of many people who settle in Kentucky?
(a) Culture of belief.
(b) Culture of honor.
(c) Culture of knowledge.
(d) Culture of religion.

3. What does Oppenheimer succeed in getting himself appointed as?
(a) The CIA couterintelligence division.
(b) The FBI's forensics unit.
(c) A professorship at MIT.
(d) The leader of the Manhattan Project.

4. What does Terman believe will be true of individuals with high IQ scores?
(a) They will be more often on the fringes of society.
(b) They will be social misfits.
(c) They will be the ones who create most of the inventions that are patented.
(d) They will be successful adults.

5. What firms are run by Christian men who live in the suburbs?
(a) White shoe law firms.
(b) Black shoe law firms.
(c) White shirt law firms.
(d) Black tie law firms.

Short Answer Questions

1. Through what age range are the school children tracked?

2. Who is most likely to get into gifted programs in the school system Gladwell mentions?

3. Who settles Harlan?

4. Where is the school that Gladwell focuses on in "Marita's Bargan"?

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

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