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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 do the Borgenichts have that is in demand in the United States?
(a) Skills as tailors.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Skills as artists.
(d) Knowledge of wine making.

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

3. Who utters an audible insult to some of the men in the experiment?
(a) One of the audience members.
(b) No one.
(c) A man partially blocking the hallway.
(d) One of the psychologists interviewing the men.

4. What did the early American educational theorists claim about long hours of school?
(a) It keeps young people out of trouble.
(b) It results in over stimulating the mind.
(c) It engenders strong morals.
(d) It endgenders a strong working ethic.

5. Who is most likely to get into gifted programs in the school system Gladwell mentions?
(a) Those who are the oldest of the year group.
(b) Those whose parents push their child to succeed.
(c) Those who are from the middle class and higher.
(d) Those who were not premature babies.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are these proxy wars characterized?

2. What percentage above the average student do KIPP students attend school?

3. What is the Colombian pilot's attitude when he communicates the plane's situation to the air traffic controller?

4. Gladwell says the Borgenichts are successful but never what?

5. Where does Langan end up living?

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