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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many crashes has Korean Airlines experienced in the past twenty years at the time of this study?
(a) 3.
(b) Just that one.
(c) Numerous.
(d) 2.

2. When does Korean Airline flight 801 crash?
(a) 2002.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1997.

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

4. Who settles Harlan?
(a) Scottish immigrants.
(b) Irish immigrants.
(c) Dutch immigrants.
(d) British immigrants from the norther part of the British Isles.

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

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

7. Of what heritage is Joe Flom?
(a) Irish.
(b) Arab.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Hispanic.

8. What did early American educational theorists claim about education?
(a) Education is not for those who prefer the school of hard knocks.
(b) Too much education is not good for average people.
(c) Not everyone who is educated is wise.
(d) Anyone can attain a high level of excellence if s/he works hard enough.

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

10. From what region of the country are the angriest subjects?
(a) They are all equally angry.
(b) Midwest.
(c) South.
(d) North.

11. What neighborhood feeds into KIPP Academy?
(a) An upper-class area.
(b) One of the worst in the city.
(c) It draws from the entire New York City.
(d) An upper, middle-class area.

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

13. What does Gladwell think is the reason for the success of the KIPP Academy?
(a) They have stepped outside the cultural legacy on which most public school systems are based.
(b) They welcome any student who wants to learn.
(c) They only admit those in the upper 10 percent of the IQ range.
(d) They cater to advantaged children.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What percentage above the average student do KIPP students attend school?

3. What do many of the children of the Borgenichts family and those like them become?

4. What do some countries consider doing with Korean Airlines?

5. What do Koreans and Colombians have in common?

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