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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What type of parenting style seems to be beneficial to the education of children?
(a) The parents who force their children to work for pay over the summer.
(b) The parents who are so busy, the children have to read to fill their time.
(c) Those who engage their children and offer them opportunities continue to learn and improve over the summer.
(d) The ones who allow the children to choose what they want to do over the summer.

5. What grade level is the school?
(a) Middle.
(b) Elementary.
(c) Community college.
(d) High.

6. What does Gladwell call the culture of many people who settle in Kentucky?
(a) Culture of knowledge.
(b) Culture of religion.
(c) Culture of honor.
(d) Culture of belief.

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

8. What is the Colombian pilot's attitude when he communicates the plane's situation to the air traffic controller?
(a) Casual.
(b) Intense.
(c) He does not mention their fuel situation at all.
(d) Angry.

9. Why do farmers in Europe in the Middle Ages go into a sort of hibernation state?
(a) To rest for the hard work in the Spring.
(b) To conserve energy and to eat less.
(c) To keep from starving.
(d) To keep their bodies from overwork.

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 the laws are favorable for Jewish people 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 law is not a popular field in the United States.

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

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

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

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

15. What does Gladwell say about reading schools at the end of one year compared to at the beginning of the next year?
(a) The poorest students make no progress in their reading skills over the summer.
(b) Only the very brightest students students make progress in their reading skills over the summer.
(c) The smartest students make no progress in their reading skills over the summer.
(d) The most average studentsstudents make no progress in their reading skills over the summer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gladwell say is an inviolate part of the school year?

2. When is Joe Flom born?

3. What are people quick to do in the type of culture Gladwell examines in Kentucky?

4. How is the pilot described?

5. Who are the Borgenichts?

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