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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 band does Gladwell examine in this chapter?
(a) The Beatles.
(b) Herman's Hermits.
(c) The Doors.
(d) Led Zeppelin.

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

3. What do the pilot and co-pilot of a Colombian airplane that crashes fail to effectively communicate?
(a) Their altitude.
(b) Correct evaculation procedures.
(c) Why their plane is on fire.
(d) How low their fuel is.

4. What does Oppenheimer have difficulty with when he is young?
(a) His social life.
(b) School.
(c) His family life.
(d) Emotional instability.

5. What does Korean Airlines perform?
(a) A extensive retrofit of their planes.
(b) An internal audit.
(c) An upgrade to their planes.
(d) Fire all of the employees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a proxy war?

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

3. From what town in Europe are most of the early residents of Roseto, Pennsylvania?

4. Of what does Gladwell say he hopes his readers are skeptical?

5. What do the Borgenichts have that is in demand in the United States?

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