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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where does Langan earn a scholarship to college?
(a) Oregon State.
(b) UCLA.
(c) Reed.
(d) MIT.
2. What is the age when this countries hockey play is at the pinnacle of success for young people?
(a) 14-15.
(b) 21-25.
(c) 17-19.
(d) 12-14.
3. What does Oppenheimer succeed in getting himself appointed as?
(a) The leader of the Manhattan Project.
(b) A professorship at MIT.
(c) The CIA couterintelligence division.
(d) The FBI's forensics unit.
4. What group of people founded Roseto, Pennsylvania?
(a) Italian immigrants.
(b) Irish immigrants.
(c) Swedish immigrants.
(d) German immigrants.
5. What is Langan unprepared to do?
(a) Push past his fears.
(b) Work hard.
(c) Accept mediocrity.
(d) Assert himself in an urban setting.
6. What keeps Langan from talking his way into some class changes at the second college he attends?
(a) An inferiority complex.
(b) An unusually strong deference to authority.
(c) A lack of social skills.
(d) A lack of drive.
7. Where does this band get their start playing?
(a) Birmingham, England.
(b) Paris, France.
(c) Dublin, Ireland.
(d) Hamburg, Germany.
8. What makes Wolf think it is not the region that is healthy?
(a) Most of the towns in the region have similar health patterns as the rest of the United States.
(b) There are two nearby towns that have heart disease at higher rates.
(c) There is a great amount of environmental pollution in that area.
(d) He does think the region has some part in the town's health.
9. What band does Gladwell examine in this chapter?
(a) Led Zeppelin.
(b) Herman's Hermits.
(c) The Doors.
(d) The Beatles.
10. What computer language does Joy help create?
(a) HTML.
(b) JAVA.
(c) FORTRAN.
(d) COBAL.
11. What does Gladwell conclude about the heart health of Roseto's residents?
(a) The townspeople are exaggerating their poor health.
(b) It is something about the town itself that keeps its residents free from heart disease.
(c) The townspeople are exaggerating their good health.
(d) The statistics have been skewed.
12. What does Gladwell delay discussing until the next chapter?
(a) Why highly intelligent people are seldom successful.
(b) The rest of Terman's story.
(c) How to use innate intelligence even if you do not have a high IQ.
(d) The rest of Langan's story.
13. What do the residents of Roseto reconstruct?
(a) An American version of their Italian homeland.
(b) An American version of the structure of European society.
(c) An experiment in moving from a lower to middle class.
(d) An experiment in liberality.
14. What does Gladwell call having a higher IQ?
(a) A liability.
(b) A blessing.
(c) An advantage.
(d) A curse.
15. What is the conclusion Terman comes to about high IQ children?
(a) They succeed just five percent 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 actually fail more often than other children.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Langan drop out of the second college he attends?
2. How many of the musicians make it to the highest level of musicianship through talent alone?
3. How many hours does one have to practice something to become an expert?
4. How are children grouped to play hockey in the country Gladwell discusses?
5. What is the other half of the Matthew effect?
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