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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 computer language does Joy help create?
(a) COBAL.
(b) HTML.
(c) FORTRAN.
(d) JAVA.

2. What keeps Langan from talking his way into some class changes at the second college he attends?
(a) An unusually strong deference to authority.
(b) An inferiority complex.
(c) A lack of drive.
(d) A lack of social skills.

3. To where does Langan transfer from his first college?
(a) University of Montana.
(b) Oklahoma State University.
(c) UC Berkeley.
(d) University of Michigan.

4. What does Gladwell find out about soccer leagues in Hungary and Czechoslovakia?
(a) The birth factor is more pronounced since physical skills are more critical in soccer.
(b) There is no correlation between hockey and soccer.
(c) Those born in the first three months of the year predominate on the elite teams.
(d) The birth fact is not as pronounced since size is not such a factor in soccer.

5. What does Gladwell conclude about the heart health of Roseto's residents?
(a) The townspeople are exaggerating their good health.
(b) It is something about the town itself that keeps its residents free from heart disease.
(c) The townspeople are exaggerating their poor health.
(d) The statistics have been skewed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Langan work on using his intelligence?

2. Why does Langan despair of publishing his theory?

3. In what year does Joy start college?

4. How are children grouped to play hockey in the country Gladwell discusses?

5. What does Gladwell say one has to have to gain success?

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