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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 does Oppenheimer have difficulty with when he is young?
(a) School.
(b) Emotional instability.
(c) His social life.
(d) His family life.

3. What does Wolf investigate among the families of Roseto?
(a) Their diet.
(b) Their family history.
(c) Their outlooks on life.
(d) Their income status.

4. What is the name of the hockey team Gladwell examines in detail?
(a) Medicine Wheel.
(b) Medicine Hat Tigers.
(c) Coyote of Fortune.
(d) Wolf Moon Raiders.

5. What does Gladwell say is required for someone to succeed?
(a) High intelligence.
(b) Practical intelligence.
(c) Luck.
(d) Being an entrepreneur.

6. What does Langan do after dropping out of the second college?
(a) Moves to New York City to panhandle.
(b) Joins a rock band.
(c) Works on his family's farm.
(d) Works construction.

7. What does Wolf learn when he examines the diets of the people of Roseto?
(a) Their diet is 90 percent grains, dairy and fruits.
(b) Their diet is 90 percent vegetarian.
(c) Their diet includes fatty and rich foods.
(d) Their diet is very low fat.

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

9. How many hours does one have to practice something to become an expert?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) It depends upon how complex the task is.
(d) 10,000.

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

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

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

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

14. 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.

15. What group of people founded Roseto, Pennsylvania?
(a) Irish immigrants.
(b) Swedish immigrants.
(c) German immigrants.
(d) Italian immigrants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Stanford-Binet test?

2. What does Langan display at a very young age?

3. Who is Chris Langan?

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

5. In what year does Joy start college?

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