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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 is the Memorial Cup?
(a) The highest trophy of the Canadian Hockey League.
(b) The highest trophy of the Russian Hockey League.
(c) The highest trophy of the American Hockey League.
(d) The highest trophy of the Swedish Hockey League.

2. What does Roger notice about the majority of the hockey players in the game he is watching?
(a) Most are all born close to midnight.
(b) Most are all at least 70 kg. in weight.
(c) Most are at least 180 cm. tall.
(d) Most are born in the first three months of the year.

3. What health issue is rarely seen in Roseto at the time Wolf visits the town?
(a) Polio.
(b) Heart disease.
(c) Strokes.
(d) Lung cancer.

4. Who is Stewart Wolf?
(a) A physician and professor.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A sociologist.
(d) One of Gladwell's co-researchers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are children born in a certain part of the year more likely to stand out?

2. What do Barnsley and a colleague find when they do further investigation into the entire country's professional hockey teams?

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

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

5. How does the country which Gladwell is discussing determine the cut-off date for hockey players?

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