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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 does Langan earn a scholarship to college?
(a) MIT.
(b) Reed.
(c) UCLA.
(d) Oregon State.

2. Where do Cohen and Nisbett conduct an experiment?
(a) University of Michigan.
(b) University of Illinois.
(c) University of Maine.
(d) University of Kentucky.

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

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

5. What makes Wolf think it is not the region that is healthy?
(a) There are two nearby towns that have heart disease at higher rates.
(b) There is a great amount of environmental pollution in that area.
(c) He does think the region has some part in the town's health.
(d) Most of the towns in the region have similar health patterns as the rest of the United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a feudal lord take from his farmers?

2. What does Gladwell say has a threshold?

3. What is the single most important reason for the success of a group of musicians Ericcson studies?

4. How many people are killed in the crash of flight 801?

5. What does Gladwell say is an inviolate part of the school year?

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