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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Gladwell say Asian cultures value?
(a) Honor.
(b) Hard work.
(c) Finding one's own niche in society.
(d) Diversity.

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

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

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

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

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

12. How many people are killed in the crash of flight 801?
(a) 208.
(b) 155.
(c) 103.
(d) 228.

13. 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) Frugal living.
(d) Loyalty to country.

14. Of what heritage is Joe Flom?
(a) Hispanic.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Irish.
(d) Arab.

15. What neighborhood feeds into KIPP Academy?
(a) It draws from the entire New York City.
(b) An upper-class area.
(c) One of the worst in the city.
(d) An upper, middle-class area.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many crashes has Korean Airlines experienced in the past twenty years at the time of this study?

2. What do farmers of the Middle Ages do in the summer in Europe?

3. Why do Flom and his colleagues take on proxy wars?

4. How do the experimenters know if the men's hormone levels rise?

5. What is one type of work Joe Flom does when he is just out of college?

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