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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 graduation from college.
(b) From very young until ninth grade.
(c) From very young through into their adult lives.
(d) From very young up until graduation from high school.

2. Where is the burden of understanding placed in a conversation between two Koreans?
(a) It depends on the relative social status of the two who are interacting.
(b) The speaker.
(c) The listener.
(d) Equally between the listener and speaker.

3. What does the town of Roseto have in great abundance when Wolf is conducting his investigations?
(a) Money.
(b) A sense of community.
(c) Structure.
(d) Leisure time.

4. What do many of the children of the Borgenichts family and those like them become?
(a) Businessmen.
(b) Artists in various areas.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Doctors and lawyers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Langan lose his scholarship?

2. Who developed the Stanford-Binet test?

3. Who are the Borgenichts?

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

5. What does Roger notice about the majority of the hockey players in the game he is watching?

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