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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the second lesson of Joe Flom?
(a) Litigious distribution.
(b) Demographic luck.
(c) High birth rates.
(d) Luck of the Draw.

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

7. What type of parenting style seems to be beneficial to the education of children?
(a) The ones who allow the children to choose what they want to do over the summer.
(b) The parents who are so busy, the children have to read to fill their time.
(c) Those who engage their children and offer them opportunities continue to learn and improve over the summer.
(d) The parents who force their children to work for pay over the summer.

8. 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.

9. How are these proxy wars characterized?
(a) Wasteful.
(b) Illegal.
(c) Hostile and messy.
(d) Borderline illegal.

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

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

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

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

14. What do farmers of the Middle Ages do in the summer in Europe?
(a) They separate seeds and set out starter pots.
(b) They are mostly idle.
(c) They work on making the earth better for planting.
(d) They do the sewing and mending.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the pilots instruments indicate?

2. What is one characteristic of a rice paddy?

3. Who settles Harlan?

4. What do the pilot and co-pilot of a Colombian airplane that crashes fail to effectively communicate?

5. Who are the Borgenichts?

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