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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) They have more growth than the younger ones of the same year.
(c) There is no likelihood that one child will stand out over another.
(d) They are called first to play on teams.

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

3. What college does Joy attend?
(a) Stanford.
(b) UCLA.
(c) UC Berkeley.
(d) University of Michigan.

4. What is the Stanford-Binet test?
(a) A test for unusual blood patterns.
(b) A test for mutant genes in a family line.
(c) A test for behavior psychosis.
(d) A test for intelligence.

5. How many of the musicians make it to the highest level of musicianship through talent alone?
(a) 10 percent.
(b) 40 percent.
(c) 25 percent.
(d) 0 percent.

6. At what university does Lewis Terman teach?
(a) UCLA.
(b) UC Berkeley.
(c) Stanford.
(d) MIT.

7. How does Terman find appropriate subjects for his research?
(a) By asking for volunteers.
(b) By asking teachers' opinions.
(c) By sifting through school records.
(d) By observing students on the play ground.

8. What is Langan unprepared to do?
(a) Assert himself in an urban setting.
(b) Accept mediocrity.
(c) Work hard.
(d) Push past his fears.

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

10. What does Gladwell say about the residents of Roseto as far as their health?
(a) They are remarkably healthy compared to other Americans.
(b) They are poorer than average compared to other Americans.
(c) He does not mention their health.
(d) They are average compared to other Americans.

11. What is the other half of the Matthew effect?
(a) A high IQ can hinder some types of success.
(b) Intimidation is not always something you consciously do.
(c) Those who have little will lose even that small amount.
(d) Academy awards do not necessarily go to the best movies.

12. What is the computer center where Joy goes to college like at that time?
(a) Just beginning.
(b) In the top 25 percent of university computer programs.
(c) In the top 10 percent of university computer programs.
(d) The best in the world.

13. What does Oppenheimer succeed in getting himself appointed as?
(a) A professorship at MIT.
(b) The leader of the Manhattan Project.
(c) The CIA couterintelligence division.
(d) The FBI's forensics unit.

14. What do Barnsley and a colleague find when they do further investigation into the entire country's professional hockey teams?
(a) Most are at least 180 cm. tall.
(b) Most are all at least 70 kg. in weight.
(c) Most are all born close to midnight.
(d) Most are born in the first three months of the year.

15. What band does Gladwell examine in this chapter?
(a) Led Zeppelin.
(b) The Doors.
(c) Herman's Hermits.
(d) The Beatles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oppenheimer have difficulty with when he is young?

2. To what characteristic does Gladwell compare the importance of IQ?

3. What opportunity does Joy have that few students had at that time?

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

5. Who is Roger Barnsley?

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