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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the burden of understanding placed in a conversation between two Koreans?
(a) The speaker.
(b) The listener.
(c) It depends on the relative social status of the two who are interacting.
(d) Equally between the listener and speaker.

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

3. Of what does Gladwell say the average student needs more?
(a) School.
(b) Better facilities.
(c) Breaks throughout the year.
(d) Summer break.

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

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

6. What is a proxy war?
(a) When two companies war over the same contract.
(b) When shareholders in the company vote and replace the board of directors with people who will agree to the company being acquired.
(c) When two companies appoint proxies to infiltrate the other company.
(d) When some people vote in proxy to remove key executives.

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

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

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

10. What cultural legacy among Asian peoples does Gladwell discuss?
(a) Rice paddies.
(b) Calligraphy.
(c) Samurai.
(d) Honor.

11. What do the men have to do after performing the task asked of them?
(a) Share their experience with an audience.
(b) Undergo a battery of psychological tests.
(c) Walk down a hall to hand it in.
(d) Write up their impressions of the experience.

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

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

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

15. How are these proxy wars characterized?
(a) Illegal.
(b) Hostile and messy.
(c) Borderline illegal.
(d) Wasteful.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Joe Flom's occupation?

3. How are rice plants weeded and harvested?

4. Where do Cohen and Nisbett conduct an experiment?

5. How do the experimenters know if the men's hormone levels rise?

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