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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 Chris Langan?
(a) A talk show host who sponsors a show about intelligence.
(b) A man who has possibly the highest IQ of anyone alive.
(c) An anthropologist who studies native intelligence.
(d) Gladwell's friend who went through reams of statistics.

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

3. Where does Langan earn a scholarship to college?
(a) UCLA.
(b) Reed.
(c) Oregon State.
(d) MIT.

4. What makes Wolf think it is not the region that is healthy?
(a) There are two nearby towns that have heart disease at higher rates.
(b) He does think the region has some part in the town's health.
(c) Most of the towns in the region have similar health patterns as the rest of the United States.
(d) There is a great amount of environmental pollution in that area.

5. What does Lewis Terman begin doing in the 1920s?
(a) Trying to develop a non-biased IQ test.
(b) Trying to measure resistance to intelligence.
(c) Following the lives of very intelligent children.
(d) Trying to raise IQ scores through rigorous training.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Terman believe will be true of individuals with high IQ scores?

2. Where does Langan end up living?

3. What does Gladwell address before he finishes the story about Chris Langan?

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

5. When does Wolf visit Roseto?

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