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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. What does Gladwell say is an inviolate part of the school year?
(a) Sports.
(b) Summer vacation.
(c) Moving from grade to grade without challenge.
(d) Changing classes.

5. How many crashes has Korean Airlines experienced in the past twenty years at the time of this study?
(a) 3.
(b) Just that one.
(c) 2.
(d) Numerous.

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

7. Gladwell says the Borgenichts are successful but never what?
(a) Ambitious.
(b) Dishonest.
(c) Pretentious.
(d) Wealthy.

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

9. What does a feudal lord take from his farmers?
(a) A small portion of their crops.
(b) None of the crops.
(c) About half of the farmers' crops.
(d) The larger portion of their crops.

10. From what are of the world are the highest-scoring students in the field of math?
(a) Asia.
(b) South America.
(c) North America.
(d) Europe.

11. What is not unique in Harlan?
(a) Large quartz mines.
(b) A spirit of community.
(c) Feuds between two families.
(d) Cooperation between various wealthy families to the detriment of the poor.

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

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

14. What do the pilot and co-pilot of a Colombian airplane that crashes fail to effectively communicate?
(a) Their altitude.
(b) Why their plane is on fire.
(c) How low their fuel is.
(d) Correct evaculation procedures.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the pilots instruments indicate?

2. Of what does Gladwell say he hopes his readers are skeptical?

3. Where do Cohen and Nisbett conduct an experiment?

4. Where is the school that Gladwell focuses on in "Marita's Bargan"?

5. What grade level is the school?

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