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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When does this band seem to come out of nowhere to rocket to stardom?
(a) Late 1950s.
(b) Mid-1980s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1960s.

3. Why does Langan drop out of the second college he attends?
(a) He hates the core required courses.
(b) His schedule is not flexible.
(c) He hates the climate.
(d) He gets in trouble for breaking the rules.

4. What does Langan work on using his intelligence?
(a) A theory of instantaneous space travel.
(b) A theory to suplement the 100 monkey theory.
(c) A theory of energy.
(d) A theory of the universe.

5. What does Gladwell say Roseto, Pennsylvania is an example of?
(a) A place with above average numbers of high achievers.
(b) An outlier.
(c) A progressive town.
(d) A failure in public welfare.

6. What is the main business of Roseto in the early years of its founding?
(a) Farming.
(b) Wine.
(c) Wool.
(d) Slate quarry.

7. What is Oppenheimer able to do even though he has some disadvantages?
(a) Believe in the basic goodness in people.
(b) Make a game plan and stick to it.
(c) Believe in himself.
(d) Convince people to help him.

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

9. What does Gladwell find out about soccer leagues in Hungary and Czechoslovakia?
(a) The birth fact is not as pronounced since size is not such a factor in soccer.
(b) There is no correlation between hockey and soccer.
(c) The birth factor is more pronounced since physical skills are more critical in soccer.
(d) Those born in the first three months of the year predominate on the elite teams.

10. What does access via terminals replace at Joy's college?
(a) Access via the telephone.
(b) Access only via the mainframe.
(c) Loading one application at a time.
(d) Limited access via one computer in the lab.

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

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

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

14. What is the single most important reason for the success of a group of musicians Ericcson studies?
(a) Exposure at an early age.
(b) Parental support.
(c) Innate ability.
(d) Practice.

15. How is Langan's family situated financially?
(a) Very poor.
(b) Middle class.
(c) Very wealthy.
(d) Upper class.

Short Answer Questions

1. What company does Joy co-found?

2. What is the Stanford-Binet test?

3. What does Oppenheimer succeed in getting himself appointed as?

4. Who is Anders Ericcson?

5. What do the residents of Roseto reconstruct?

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