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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. What does Korean Airlines perform?
(a) An internal audit.
(b) An upgrade to their planes.
(c) Fire all of the employees.
(d) A extensive retrofit of their planes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Of what does Gladwell say he hopes his readers are skeptical?
(a) The need for success.
(b) Typical rags-to-riches stories.
(c) Gladwell's statistics.
(d) Typical people.

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

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

14. Why does Joe Flom have trouble getting a job after college?
(a) From being Irish.
(b) From being Jewish.
(c) From being Hispanic.
(d) Because he did not make good grades in college.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did early American educational theorists claim about education?

2. Who are the Howards and Turners?

3. How many people are killed in the crash of flight 801?

4. What percentage above the average student do KIPP students attend school?

5. Who are the Borgenichts?

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