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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What do the residents of Roseto reconstruct?
(a) An experiment in liberality.
(b) An American version of their Italian homeland.
(c) An American version of the structure of European society.
(d) An experiment in moving from a lower to middle class.

3. What opportunity does Joy have that few students had at that time?
(a) The opportunity to spend 1,000 hours on programming.
(b) The opportunity to spend 10,000 hours on programming.
(c) The opportunity to spend 15,000 hours on programming.
(d) The opportunity to study the results of his coding.

4. From what does the title "The Matthew Effect" get its name?
(a) The book of Matthew in the New Testament.
(b) A movie that was only shown in theaters for a couple weeks.
(c) A young man who won 6 Olympic gold medals at the games in Finland in 1952.
(d) The name of a chess prodigy who has the highest IQ ever recorded.

5. What does Lewis Terman begin doing in the 1920s?
(a) Trying to measure resistance to intelligence.
(b) Following the lives of very intelligent children.
(c) Trying to raise IQ scores through rigorous training.
(d) Trying to develop a non-biased IQ test.

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

7. What was the leading killer of men under the age of 65 in the 1950s?
(a) Infectious diseases.
(b) Car accidents.
(c) Stroke.
(d) Heart attacks.

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

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

10. Who developed the Stanford-Binet test?
(a) Erricsson.
(b) Lewis Terman.
(c) Todd Binet.
(d) John Stanford.

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

12. To where does Langan transfer from his first college?
(a) University of Montana.
(b) UC Berkeley.
(c) University of Michigan.
(d) Oklahoma State University.

13. What health issue is rarely seen in Roseto at the time Wolf visits the town?
(a) Heart disease.
(b) Polio.
(c) Strokes.
(d) Lung cancer.

14. What is the Memorial Cup?
(a) The highest trophy of the Russian Hockey League.
(b) The highest trophy of the American Hockey League.
(c) The highest trophy of the Swedish Hockey League.
(d) The highest trophy of the Canadian Hockey League.

15. Through what age range are the school children tracked?
(a) From very young until graduation from college.
(b) From very young until ninth grade.
(c) From very young up until graduation from high school.
(d) From very young through into their adult lives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Langan drop out of the second college he attends?

2. What is the computer center where Joy goes to college like at that time?

3. What computer language does Joy help create?

4. What is the main business of Roseto in the early years of its founding?

5. Where does Langan once make an appearance that Gladwell mentions?

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