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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 unhappy.
(c) They are inattentive and undertrained.
(d) They are average for the airline industry.

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

10. Where is Harlan?
(a) Near the border of Kentucky and Illinois.
(b) In Western Tennessee.
(c) In southwestern Kentucky.
(d) On the Cumberland Plateau in Kentucky.

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

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

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

14. What do the ask some college-aged men to do?
(a) Fast for 24 hours.
(b) Fill out a questionaire.
(c) Sit in a room alone for 24 hours.
(d) Refrain from talking to any woman for 72 hours.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one group of people worldwide who have developed the culture Gladwell examines in Kentucky?

2. What does Gladwell say about reading schools at the end of one year compared to at the beginning of the next year?

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

4. Why do farmers in Europe in the Middle Ages go into a sort of hibernation state?

5. How is the pilot described?

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