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

2. What company does Joy co-found?
(a) Microsoft.
(b) Intel.
(c) IBM.
(d) Sun Microsystems.

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

4. What is the second lesson of Joe Flom?
(a) High birth rates.
(b) Litigious distribution.
(c) Demographic luck.
(d) Luck of the Draw.

5. What is the Colombian pilot's attitude when he communicates the plane's situation to the air traffic controller?
(a) Intense.
(b) Angry.
(c) He does not mention their fuel situation at all.
(d) Casual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is not unique in Harlan?

2. What do many of the children of the Borgenichts family and those like them become?

3. What is Langan unprepared to do?

4. Where is the burden of understanding placed in a conversation between two Koreans?

5. What is a proxy war?

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