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

2. Who is Roger Barnsley?
(a) A German psychiatrist.
(b) A British hockey coach.
(c) A Canadian psychologist.
(d) A Swedish exercise physiologist.

3. What do Barnsley and a colleague find when they do further investigation into the entire country's professional hockey teams?
(a) Most are at least 180 cm. tall.
(b) Most are all born close to midnight.
(c) Most are all at least 70 kg. in weight.
(d) Most are born in the first three months of the year.

4. What data does the table that Gladwell consults to theorize the success of some of the best hockey players in the country include?
(a) Names, position, birth date, hometown.
(b) Just birth date.
(c) Just names and position.
(d) Just names and hometown.

5. 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 at least 180 cm. tall.
(c) Most are born in the first three months of the year.
(d) Most are all at least 70 kg. in weight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gladwell say about the residents of Roseto as far as their health?

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

3. What group of people founded Roseto, Pennsylvania?

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

5. What is 30 to 35 percent lower in Roseto than the rest of the country?

(see the answer key)

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