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

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

3. What does Gladwell say Roseto, Pennsylvania is an example of?
(a) A progressive town.
(b) A place with above average numbers of high achievers.
(c) An outlier.
(d) A failure in public welfare.

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

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) There is no correlation between hockey and soccer.
(d) Those born in the first three months of the year predominate on the elite teams.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What band does Gladwell examine in this chapter?

3. What does Joy cheat a program to obtain?

4. What do some players from the highest young people's hockey team sometimes go on to do?

5. In what year does Joy start college?

(see the answer key)

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