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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do many of the children of the Borgenichts family and those like them become?
(a) Businessmen.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Artists in various areas.
(d) Doctors and lawyers.

2. Why does the pilot have difficulty seeing the runway?
(a) Heavy rain.
(b) The electricity is off.
(c) Heavy smoke.
(d) Heavy fog.

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

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

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

6. 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 cater to advantaged children.
(c) They have stepped outside the cultural legacy on which most public school systems are based.
(d) They only admit those in the upper 10 percent of the IQ range.

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

8. When is Joe Flom born?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1940s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1920s.

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Korean airlines realize is a large part of their problem?

2. What firms are run by Christian men who live in the suburbs?

3. What does Gladwell call the culture of many people who settle in Kentucky?

4. Who utters an audible insult to some of the men in the experiment?

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

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