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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue, A Jamaican Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Harlan?
(a) On the Cumberland Plateau in Kentucky.
(b) Near the border of Kentucky and Illinois.
(c) In southwestern Kentucky.
(d) In Western Tennessee.

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) Equally between the listener and speaker.
(d) The listener.

3. How are children grouped to play hockey in the country Gladwell discusses?
(a) By class.
(b) By size.
(c) By age.
(d) By region.

4. Upon what is the social structure in Jamaica partially based?
(a) Eye color.
(b) Possessions.
(c) Birth city.
(d) Skin tone.

5. What keeps Langan from talking his way into some class changes at the second college he attends?
(a) A lack of drive.
(b) A lack of social skills.
(c) An unusually strong deference to authority.
(d) An inferiority complex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the hockey team Gladwell examines in detail?

2. What is Langan unprepared to do?

3. What cultural legacy among Asian peoples does Gladwell discuss?

4. Of what does Gladwell say he hopes his readers are skeptical?

5. What do the ask some college-aged men to do?

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