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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 4, The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What opportunity does Joy have that few students had at that time?
(a) The opportunity to spend 10,000 hours on programming.
(b) The opportunity to spend 1,000 hours on programming.
(c) The opportunity to spend 15,000 hours on programming.
(d) The opportunity to study the results of his coding.

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

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

4. Where does Langan grow up?
(a) South Dakota.
(b) Montana.
(c) Wyoming.
(d) Michigan.

5. What does Gladwell address before he finishes the story about Chris Langan?
(a) The school system in which Langan grows up.
(b) The idea of IQ having very litte accuracy.
(c) The subject of IQ.
(d) The family of geniuses from which Langan comes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Roger Barnsley?

2. Where does this band get their start playing?

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

4. What does Gladwell say is required for someone to succeed?

5. With whom does Bill Gates found Microsoft?

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