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

2. Why are children born in a certain part of the year more likely to stand out?
(a) If they are born in the summer, they practice more.
(b) There is no likelihood that one child will stand out over another.
(c) They have more growth than the younger ones of the same year.
(d) They are called first to play on teams.

3. What is the computer center where Joy goes to college like at that time?
(a) In the top 10 percent of university computer programs.
(b) Just beginning.
(c) In the top 25 percent of university computer programs.
(d) The best in the world.

4. What does Gladwell delay discussing until the next chapter?
(a) The rest of Terman's story.
(b) How to use innate intelligence even if you do not have a high IQ.
(c) The rest of Langan's story.
(d) Why highly intelligent people are seldom successful.

5. What does Wolf learn when he examines the diets of the people of Roseto?
(a) Their diet is 90 percent vegetarian.
(b) Their diet is very low fat.
(c) Their diet includes fatty and rich foods.
(d) Their diet is 90 percent grains, dairy and fruits.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Langan end up living?

2. What do the residents of Roseto reconstruct?

3. What does Langan do after dropping out of the second college?

4. Which country's public school system has a similar effect to that found in Hungarian and Czechoslovakian soccer leagues?

5. What company does Joy co-found?

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