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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Langan end up living?
(a) Rural South Dakota.
(b) Rural Mississippi.
(c) Rural Wyoming.
(d) Rural Missouri.

3. 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) There is a great amount of environmental pollution in that area.
(c) There are two nearby towns that have heart disease at higher rates.
(d) Most of the towns in the region have similar health patterns as the rest of the United States.

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

5. What does Joy cheat a program to obtain?
(a) Codes for using all the available programs.
(b) Codes for the university's grades.
(c) Codes for the university's class schedules.
(d) Unlimited time on the computer.

6. What does Gladwell address before he finishes the story about Chris Langan?
(a) The school system in which Langan grows up.
(b) The family of geniuses from which Langan comes.
(c) The idea of IQ having very litte accuracy.
(d) The subject of IQ.

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

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

9. What does Gladwell delay discussing until the next chapter?
(a) Why highly intelligent people are seldom successful.
(b) The rest of Langan's story.
(c) The rest of Terman's story.
(d) How to use innate intelligence even if you do not have a high IQ.

10. 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) Those born in the first three months of the year predominate on the elite teams.
(c) The birth factor is more pronounced since physical skills are more critical in soccer.
(d) There is no correlation between hockey and soccer.

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

12. Why are children born in a certain part of the year more likely to stand out?
(a) If they are born in the summer, they practice more.
(b) There is no likelihood that one child will stand out over another.
(c) They have more growth than the younger ones of the same year.
(d) They are called first to play on teams.

13. Where does Langan grow up?
(a) Montana.
(b) Wyoming.
(c) Michigan.
(d) South Dakota.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gladwell think that being taller than another basketball player will do for a basketball player?

2. Which country's public school system has a similar effect to that found in Hungarian and Czechoslovakian soccer leagues?

3. Why does Langan lose his scholarship?

4. What does Wolf learn when he examines the diets of the people of Roseto?

5. What company does Joy co-found?

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