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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 does Joy do almost day in and day out at college?
(a) Brainstorm with other computer geeks.
(b) Test his mettle against other geeks.
(c) Play.
(d) Program.

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

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

4. With whom does Bill Gates found Microsoft?
(a) He founds it by himself.
(b) Bill Joy.
(c) Steve Jobs.
(d) Paul Allen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What health issue is rarely seen in Roseto at the time Wolf visits the town?

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

3. What is the Stanford-Binet test?

4. What time period is the first example of an outlier from?

5. When does this band seem to come out of nowhere to rocket to stardom?

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