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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Gladwell say Asian cultures value?
(a) Hard work.
(b) Honor.
(c) Diversity.
(d) Finding one's own niche in society.
2. What firms are run by Christian men who live in the suburbs?
(a) White shirt law firms.
(b) Black shoe law firms.
(c) White shoe law firms.
(d) Black tie law firms.
3. How often does the rice farmer have to tend to the rice paddies?
(a) Continually.
(b) Two or three times a month.
(c) Just in the summer.
(d) Just in the Spring.
4. What does Gladwell say about reading schools at the end of one year compared to at the beginning of the next year?
(a) Only the very brightest students students make progress in their reading skills over the summer.
(b) The smartest students make no progress in their reading skills over the summer.
(c) The most average studentsstudents make no progress in their reading skills over the summer.
(d) The poorest students make no progress in their reading skills over the summer.
5. 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.
6. Why does Joe Flom have trouble getting a job after college?
(a) From being Hispanic.
(b) From being Irish.
(c) Because he did not make good grades in college.
(d) From being Jewish.
7. What is the second lesson of Joe Flom?
(a) Litigious distribution.
(b) Demographic luck.
(c) Luck of the Draw.
(d) High birth rates.
8. What do the Borgenichts have that is in demand in the United States?
(a) Skills as tailors.
(b) Knowledge of wine making.
(c) Skills as artists.
(d) Nothing.
9. What is a proxy war?
(a) When two companies war over the same contract.
(b) When shareholders in the company vote and replace the board of directors with people who will agree to the company being acquired.
(c) When some people vote in proxy to remove key executives.
(d) When two companies appoint proxies to infiltrate the other company.
10. Where is the burden of understanding placed in a conversation between two Koreans?
(a) The listener.
(b) The speaker.
(c) Equally between the listener and speaker.
(d) It depends on the relative social status of the two who are interacting.
11. What does Korean airlines realize is a large part of their problem?
(a) Their cultural legacy.
(b) Their old planes.
(c) Their lack of good mechanics.
(d) Their pay structure.
12. Who settles Harlan?
(a) Scottish immigrants.
(b) Dutch immigrants.
(c) British immigrants from the norther part of the British Isles.
(d) Irish immigrants.
13. 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.
14. Why does the pilot have difficulty seeing the runway?
(a) The electricity is off.
(b) Heavy smoke.
(c) Heavy fog.
(d) Heavy rain.
15. What does Gladwell say is an inviolate part of the school year?
(a) Moving from grade to grade without challenge.
(b) Changing classes.
(c) Summer vacation.
(d) Sports.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do the men have to do after performing the task asked of them?
2. What grade level is the school?
3. Where is Harlan?
4. What can Chinese farmers do if they produce more than the taxed amount?
5. When is Harlan settled?
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