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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What computer language does Joy help create?
(a) JAVA.
(b) FORTRAN.
(c) COBAL.
(d) HTML.
2. How many of the musicians make it to the highest level of musicianship through talent alone?
(a) 25 percent.
(b) 40 percent.
(c) 0 percent.
(d) 10 percent.
3. What does access via terminals replace at Joy's college?
(a) Access via the telephone.
(b) Access only via the mainframe.
(c) Limited access via one computer in the lab.
(d) Loading one application at a time.
4. What do the residents of Roseto reconstruct?
(a) An experiment in moving from a lower to middle class.
(b) An experiment in liberality.
(c) An American version of their Italian homeland.
(d) An American version of the structure of European society.
5. From what does the title "The Matthew Effect" get its name?
(a) The name of a chess prodigy who has the highest IQ ever recorded.
(b) The book of Matthew in the New Testament.
(c) A young man who won 6 Olympic gold medals at the games in Finland in 1952.
(d) A movie that was only shown in theaters for a couple weeks.
6. What does Terman believe will be true of individuals with high IQ scores?
(a) They will be successful adults.
(b) They will be the ones who create most of the inventions that are patented.
(c) They will be more often on the fringes of society.
(d) They will be social misfits.
7. What band does Gladwell examine in this chapter?
(a) The Beatles.
(b) Led Zeppelin.
(c) Herman's Hermits.
(d) The Doors.
8. Where does Langan earn a scholarship to college?
(a) MIT.
(b) UCLA.
(c) Oregon State.
(d) Reed.
9. Which country's public school system has a similar effect to that found in Hungarian and Czechoslovakian soccer leagues?
(a) British.
(b) French.
(c) Canadian.
(d) American.
10. What is the name of the hockey team Gladwell examines in detail?
(a) Wolf Moon Raiders.
(b) Medicine Hat Tigers.
(c) Medicine Wheel.
(d) Coyote of Fortune.
11. Through what age range are the school children tracked?
(a) From very young through into their adult lives.
(b) From very young until ninth grade.
(c) From very young until graduation from college.
(d) From very young up until graduation from high school.
12. What college does Joy attend?
(a) UC Berkeley.
(b) University of Michigan.
(c) Stanford.
(d) UCLA.
13. Where does Langan end up living?
(a) Rural Missouri.
(b) Rural Wyoming.
(c) Rural South Dakota.
(d) Rural Mississippi.
14. What does Joy do almost day in and day out at college?
(a) Brainstorm with other computer geeks.
(b) Play.
(c) Program.
(d) Test his mettle against other geeks.
15. Who developed the Stanford-Binet test?
(a) Lewis Terman.
(b) John Stanford.
(c) Erricsson.
(d) Todd Binet.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does this band get their start playing?
2. What health issue is rarely seen in Roseto at the time Wolf visits the town?
3. Why does Langan lose his scholarship?
4. Where does Langan once make an appearance that Gladwell mentions?
5. To what characteristic does Gladwell compare the importance of IQ?
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