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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. What band does Gladwell examine in this chapter?
(a) The Doors.
(b) Led Zeppelin.
(c) The Beatles.
(d) Herman's Hermits.

2. Where does Joe Flom grow up?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Washington, D. C.
(c) Miami.
(d) Newark.

3. What is Joe Flom's occupation?
(a) CEO of a technological corporation.
(b) CEO of a trade corporation.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Lawyer.

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

5. What does Joy cheat a program to obtain?
(a) Codes for the university's class schedules.
(b) Codes for using all the available programs.
(c) Unlimited time on the computer.
(d) Codes for the university's grades.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Gladwell's mother and aunt go to college?

2. How does Terman find appropriate subjects for his research?

3. Where is the school that Gladwell focuses on in "Marita's Bargan"?

4. From what are of the world are the highest-scoring students in the field of math?

5. What college does Joy attend?

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