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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Cohen and Nisbett conduct an experiment?
(a) University of Maine.
(b) University of Michigan.
(c) University of Kentucky.
(d) University of Illinois.

2. What do farmers of the Middle Ages do in the summer in Europe?
(a) They separate seeds and set out starter pots.
(b) They are mostly idle.
(c) They work on making the earth better for planting.
(d) They do the sewing and mending.

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

4. What determines the amount of crops taken by the government each year?
(a) The weather.
(b) Any wars going on.
(c) It is fixed.
(d) It fluctuates depending on how much the government puts out.

5. Who are the Borgenichts?
(a) A group who eschew luxury.
(b) A family of vintners in New York.
(c) A family in the garment industry in New York.
(d) A family of lawyers from New England.

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

7. Why do Flom and his colleagues take on proxy wars?
(a) They enjoy figuring out how to keep it just legal.
(b) They are excluded from taking more respectable work.
(c) They are able to save the companies a great deal of money.
(d) They like the excitement of it.

8. What did the early American educational theorists claim about long hours of school?
(a) It results in over stimulating the mind.
(b) It keeps young people out of trouble.
(c) It engenders strong morals.
(d) It endgenders a strong working ethic.

9. Who are the Hatfields and McCoys?
(a) Two other garment-industry families in Tennessee.
(b) The most wealthy families in Kentucky.
(c) Another feuding family in Kentucky.
(d) The owners of the most profitable coal mines in West Virginia.

10. What is one way in which Flom's life is affected by the second lesson of Joe Flom?
(a) He is born in a time when there is a low birth rate in the United States.
(b) He is born in a time when law is not a popular field in the United States.
(c) He is born in a time when there is a high birth rate in the United States.
(d) He is born in a time when the laws are favorable for Jewish people in the United States.

11. What percentage above the average student do KIPP students attend school?
(a) 75.
(b) 50.
(c) 15.
(d) 10.

12. What occasionally erupts into violence and murder?
(a) Competition to hire garment workers.
(b) A feud between the Howards and Turners.
(c) A yearly festival in Harlan.
(d) Competition to buy potential mining land.

13. What is one characteristic of a rice paddy?
(a) It is a complicated system.
(b) It requires very little attention.
(c) It requires very little water.
(d) It is a fairly simple system.

14. Who are the Howards and Turners?
(a) Two large families who settle in Harlan.
(b) Two families who go into the mining business in Harlan.
(c) Two families who continuously intermarry.
(d) Two families who go into the garment business in Harlan.

15. What can Chinese farmers do if they produce more than the taxed amount?
(a) Gladwell does not say.
(b) Share it.
(c) Keep it.
(d) They are only allowed to produce a certain amount.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the burden of understanding placed in a conversation between two Koreans?

2. How are these proxy wars characterized?

3. What do the ask some college-aged men to do?

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

5. Why does Joe Flom have trouble getting a job after college?

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