2. What does Gladwell conclude about the heart health of Roseto's residents?
(a) It is something about the town itself that keeps its residents free from heart disease.
(b) The townspeople are exaggerating their good health.
(c) The townspeople are exaggerating their poor health.
(d) The statistics have been skewed.

3. What time period is the first example of an outlier from?
(a) The last decade of the 19th century.
(b) The first decade of the 21st century.
(c) The first half of the 20th century.
(d) Mid-to late 20th century.

4. What is the Stanford-Binet test?
(a) A test for unusual blood patterns.
(b) A test for mutant genes in a family line.
(c) A test for behavior psychosis.
(d) A test for intelligence.

5. Where does this band get their start playing?
(a) Birmingham, England.
(b) Hamburg, Germany.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) Dublin, Ireland.

6. What does Gladwell think that being taller than another basketball player will do for a basketball player?
(a) He thinks it gives an advantage but no guarantees.
(b) He thinks the intimidation factor is what makes a difference not height.
(c) He does not write about basket ball players.
(d) He thinks the taller person in some ways has a disadvantage because of expectations.

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

8. What do Barnsley and a colleague find when they do further investigation into the entire country's professional hockey teams?
(a) Most are all born close to midnight.
(b) Most are at least 180 cm. tall.
(c) Most are born in the first three months of the year.
(d) Most are all at least 70 kg. in weight.

9. With whom does Bill Gates found Microsoft?
(a) Paul Allen.
(b) Steve Jobs.
(c) Bill Joy.
(d) He founds it by himself.

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

11. With whom does Wolf speak at Roseto?
(a) Several local ministers.
(b) A local politician.
(c) Several sociology professors.
(d) A local physician.

12. When does Wolf visit Roseto?
(a) The 1990s.
(b) The 1950s.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1988.

13. Who is Chris Langan?
(a) A talk show host who sponsors a show about intelligence.
(b) An anthropologist who studies native intelligence.
(c) Gladwell's friend who went through reams of statistics.
(d) A man who has possibly the highest IQ of anyone alive.

14. What is the other half of the Matthew effect?
(a) A high IQ can hinder some types of success.
(b) Those who have little will lose even that small amount.
(c) Intimidation is not always something you consciously do.
(d) Academy awards do not necessarily go to the best movies.

15. What does Oppenheimer succeed in getting himself appointed as?
(a) The leader of the Manhattan Project.
(b) A professorship at MIT.
(c) The CIA couterintelligence division.
(d) The FBI's forensics unit.