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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 Oppenheimer succeed in getting himself appointed as?
(a) A professorship at MIT.
(b) The leader of the Manhattan Project.
(c) The FBI's forensics unit.
(d) The CIA couterintelligence division.

2. What do some players from the highest young people's hockey team sometimes go on to do?
(a) Teach hockey in colleges.
(b) Coach professional hockey teams.
(c) There is no common thing that some of the young people do.
(d) Play professionally.

3. What band does Gladwell examine in this chapter?
(a) Led Zeppelin.
(b) The Doors.
(c) The Beatles.
(d) Herman's Hermits.

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

5. What is Langan unprepared to do?
(a) Push past his fears.
(b) Accept mediocrity.
(c) Work hard.
(d) Assert himself in an urban setting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Stanford-Binet test?

2. Where does Langan grow up?

3. What does Joy do almost day in and day out at college?

4. What is the conclusion Terman comes to about high IQ children?

5. What does Joy cheat a program to obtain?

(see the answer key)

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