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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 2, The 10,000-Hour Rule.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time period is the first example of an outlier from?
(a) The first half of the 20th century.
(b) The last decade of the 19th century.
(c) Mid-to late 20th century.
(d) The first decade of the 21st century.

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

3. From what country are the hockey players that Gladwell discusses?
(a) Sweden.
(b) The United States.
(c) Canada.
(d) Russia.

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

5. What do the residents of Roseto reconstruct?
(a) An experiment in moving from a lower to middle class.
(b) An American version of the structure of European society.
(c) An American version of their Italian homeland.
(d) An experiment in liberality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joy do almost day in and day out at college?

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

3. What is the computer center where Joy goes to college like at that time?

4. What is the first half Matthew effect?

5. What is the main business of Roseto in the early years of its founding?

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