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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) Teachers.
(b) Businessmen.
(c) Artists in various areas.
(d) Doctors and lawyers.

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

3. 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 clan or family.
(d) Loyalty to country.

4. Who are the Howards and Turners?
(a) Two families who go into the mining business in Harlan.
(b) Two families who go into the garment business in Harlan.
(c) Two large families who settle in Harlan.
(d) Two families who continuously intermarry.

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

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

7. 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 keep from starving.
(c) To rest for the hard work in the Spring.
(d) To conserve energy and to eat less.

8. 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.

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

10. What do Koreans and Colombians have in common?
(a) A high PDI.
(b) A culture of honor.
(c) Many plane crashes.
(d) A very low PDI.

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

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

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

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

15. What does the ground have to be like for a successful rice paddy?
(a) Sandy.
(b) Well drained.
(c) Level.
(d) Loamy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the PDI of people of the United States?

2. What is Joe Flom's occupation?

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

4. What occasionally erupts into violence and murder?

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

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