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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do some players from the highest young people's hockey team sometimes go on to do?
(a) Teach hockey in colleges.
(b) Coach professional hockey teams.
(c) Play professionally.
(d) There is no common thing that some of the young people do.

2. What does Terman believe will be true of individuals with high IQ scores?
(a) They will be the ones who create most of the inventions that are patented.
(b) They will be more often on the fringes of society.
(c) They will be successful adults.
(d) They will be social misfits.

3. Which country's public school system has a similar effect to that found in Hungarian and Czechoslovakian soccer leagues?
(a) Canadian.
(b) British.
(c) American.
(d) French.

4. How does the country which Gladwell is discussing determine the cut-off date for hockey players?
(a) There is no set determination.
(b) January 1.
(c) January 1 and June 1.
(d) June 1 and September 1.

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

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

7. Who is Roger Barnsley?
(a) A Canadian psychologist.
(b) A German psychiatrist.
(c) A British hockey coach.
(d) A Swedish exercise physiologist.

8. What is the conclusion Terman comes to about high IQ children?
(a) They actually fail more often than other children.
(b) They succeed or fail at the same rate as other children.
(c) They succeed just five percent more often than other children.
(d) They succeed fifty percent more often than other children.

9. At what university does Lewis Terman teach?
(a) Stanford.
(b) UC Berkeley.
(c) MIT.
(d) UCLA.

10. From what country are the hockey players that Gladwell discusses?
(a) Canada.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Russia.
(d) The United States.

11. Who is Bill Joy?
(a) An Apple programmer.
(b) A entrepreneur in the field of sports.
(c) A entrepreneur in the field of art.
(d) A computer programmer.

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

13. From what town in Europe are most of the early residents of Roseto, Pennsylvania?
(a) Roseto.
(b) Naples.
(c) Lucera.
(d) Rome.

14. What data does the table that Gladwell consults to theorize the success of some of the best hockey players in the country include?
(a) Names, position, birth date, hometown.
(b) Just names and position.
(c) Just birth date.
(d) Just names and hometown.

15. What is 30 to 35 percent lower in Roseto than the rest of the country?
(a) Suicide rate.
(b) Divorce rate.
(c) Death rate from heart disease.
(d) Death rate from strokes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oppenheimer have difficulty with when he is young?

2. What was the leading killer of men under the age of 65 in the 1950s?

3. What does access via terminals replace at Joy's college?

4. What does Gladwell address before he finishes the story about Chris Langan?

5. From what does the title "The Matthew Effect" get its name?

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