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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Borgenichts have that is in demand in the United States?
(a) Knowledge of wine making.
(b) Skills as artists.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Skills as tailors.

2. Where does Joe Flom grow up?
(a) Miami.
(b) Washington, D. C.
(c) Newark.
(d) Brooklyn.

3. From what are of the world are the highest-scoring students in the field of math?
(a) North America.
(b) Europe.
(c) Asia.
(d) South America.

4. What does the ground have to be like for a successful rice paddy?
(a) Sandy.
(b) Well drained.
(c) Loamy.
(d) Level.

5. What does Gladwell say Asian cultures value?
(a) Hard work.
(b) Honor.
(c) Finding one's own niche in society.
(d) Diversity.

6. Why does the pilot have difficulty seeing the runway?
(a) Heavy smoke.
(b) The electricity is off.
(c) Heavy rain.
(d) Heavy fog.

7. What is the most important thing in the type of culture Gladwell examines in Kentucky?
(a) Loyalty to country.
(b) Loyalty to clan or family.
(c) Frugal living.
(d) Love of the land.

8. What is one group of people worldwide who have developed the culture Gladwell examines in Kentucky?
(a) Farming groups.
(b) Herding groups.
(c) Industrial groups.
(d) Mining groups.

9. Of what does Gladwell say he hopes his readers are skeptical?
(a) The need for success.
(b) Typical rags-to-riches stories.
(c) Gladwell's statistics.
(d) Typical people.

10. How often does the rice farmer have to tend to the rice paddies?
(a) Just in the Spring.
(b) Continually.
(c) Just in the summer.
(d) Two or three times a month.

11. What is the second lesson of Joe Flom?
(a) Demographic luck.
(b) Litigious distribution.
(c) Luck of the Draw.
(d) High birth rates.

12. What does Gladwell say is an inviolate part of the school year?
(a) Sports.
(b) Moving from grade to grade without challenge.
(c) Changing classes.
(d) Summer vacation.

13. How is the pilot described?
(a) Very experienced.
(b) A workaholic.
(c) Fairly inexperienced.
(d) An alcoholic.

14. What do some countries consider doing with Korean Airlines?
(a) Encourage it to operate in their country.
(b) Suing it.
(c) Banning it from landing in their countries.
(d) Helping it overcome its safety problems.

15. What do the pilot and co-pilot of a Colombian airplane that crashes fail to effectively communicate?
(a) How low their fuel is.
(b) Their altitude.
(c) Correct evaculation procedures.
(d) Why their plane is on fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is Harlan settled?

2. How many people are killed in the crash of flight 801?

3. What is Joe Flom's occupation?

4. Gladwell says the Borgenichts are successful but never what?

5. What does Korean airlines determine about their flight crew members?

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