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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who utters an audible insult to some of the men in the experiment?
(a) No one.
(b) One of the audience members.
(c) One of the psychologists interviewing the men.
(d) A man partially blocking the hallway.

2. What are people quick to do in the type of culture Gladwell examines in Kentucky?
(a) Defend their families.
(b) Defend their land.
(c) Put away their money.
(d) Defend their country.

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

4. What is Joe Flom's occupation?
(a) Doctor.
(b) CEO of a trade corporation.
(c) CEO of a technological corporation.
(d) Lawyer.

5. Where is the school that Gladwell focuses on in "Marita's Bargan"?
(a) South Bronx.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) Harlem.
(d) Queens.

6. What does Korean airlines determine about their flight crew members?
(a) They are inattentive and undertrained.
(b) They are unhappy.
(c) They are average for the airline industry.
(d) They are some of the best trained in the airline industry.

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

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

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

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 law is not a popular field in the United States.
(b) He is born in a time when there is a low birth rate 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. Where is Harlan?
(a) In Western Tennessee.
(b) In southwestern Kentucky.
(c) On the Cumberland Plateau in Kentucky.
(d) Near the border of Kentucky and Illinois.

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

13. What is the PDI of people of the United States?
(a) About in the middle.
(b) It's never been measured.
(c) High.
(d) Low.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Flom and his colleagues take on proxy wars?

2. What is one type of work Joe Flom does when he is just out of college?

3. What do the men have to do after performing the task asked of them?

4. What do the pilot and co-pilot of a Colombian airplane that crashes fail to effectively communicate?

5. What does Korean Airlines perform?

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