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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. What is the age when this countries hockey play is at the pinnacle of success for young people?
(a) 17-19.
(b) 14-15.
(c) 12-14.
(d) 21-25.

2. How are these proxy wars characterized?
(a) Illegal.
(b) Wasteful.
(c) Borderline illegal.
(d) Hostile and messy.

3. What is the conclusion Terman comes to about high IQ children?
(a) They succeed just five percent more often than other children.
(b) They succeed fifty percent more often than other children.
(c) They succeed or fail at the same rate as other children.
(d) They actually fail more often than other children.

4. What pattern does Gladwell examine in Kentucky?
(a) Families who go into the garment industry.
(b) Family feuds.
(c) Families who go into the tobacco industry.
(d) Families who go into coal mining.

5. Why does Joe Flom have trouble getting a job after college?
(a) From being Irish.
(b) From being Hispanic.
(c) From being Jewish.
(d) Because he did not make good grades in college.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are people quick to do in the type of culture Gladwell examines in Kentucky?

2. What does Oppenheimer succeed in getting himself appointed as?

3. Why does Langan despair of publishing his theory?

4. What do the pilot and co-pilot of a Colombian airplane that crashes fail to effectively communicate?

5. What do the men have to do after performing the task asked of them?

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