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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 1, The Matthew Effect.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the town of Roseto have in great abundance when Wolf is conducting his investigations?
(a) Leisure time.
(b) Money.
(c) A sense of community.
(d) Structure.

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

3. What is the name of the hockey team Gladwell examines in detail?
(a) Wolf Moon Raiders.
(b) Medicine Wheel.
(c) Coyote of Fortune.
(d) Medicine Hat Tigers.

4. What is 30 to 35 percent lower in Roseto than the rest of the country?
(a) Death rate from heart disease.
(b) Divorce rate.
(c) Suicide rate.
(d) Death rate from strokes.

5. What does Gladwell find out about soccer leagues in Hungary and Czechoslovakia?
(a) The birth fact is not as pronounced since size is not such a factor in soccer.
(b) The birth factor is more pronounced since physical skills are more critical in soccer.
(c) Those born in the first three months of the year predominate on the elite teams.
(d) There is no correlation between hockey and soccer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What time period is the first example of an outlier from?

3. What does Roger notice about the majority of the hockey players in the game he is watching?

4. Which country's public school system has a similar effect to that found in Hungarian and Czechoslovakian soccer leagues?

5. What does Wolf investigate among the families of Roseto?

(see the answer key)

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