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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 7, The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Through what age range are the school children tracked?
(a) From very young until ninth grade.
(b) From very young up until graduation from high school.
(c) From very young through into their adult lives.
(d) From very young until graduation from college.

2. Of what does Gladwell say he hopes his readers are skeptical?
(a) Typical people.
(b) Typical rags-to-riches stories.
(c) The need for success.
(d) Gladwell's statistics.

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

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

5. Who are the Borgenichts?
(a) A group who eschew luxury.
(b) A family in the garment industry in New York.
(c) A family of vintners in New York.
(d) A family of lawyers from New England.

Short Answer Questions

1. What data does the table that Gladwell consults to theorize the success of some of the best hockey players in the country include?

2. What is Langan unprepared to do?

3. From what region of the country are the angriest subjects?

4. What does Gladwell say has a threshold?

5. Who is Roger Barnsley?

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