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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gladwell find out about soccer leagues in Hungary and Czechoslovakia?
(a) The birth factor is more pronounced since physical skills are more critical in soccer.
(b) Those born in the first three months of the year predominate on the elite teams.
(c) The birth fact is not as pronounced since size is not such a factor in soccer.
(d) There is no correlation between hockey and soccer.

2. Who is Bill Joy?
(a) A entrepreneur in the field of art.
(b) A computer programmer.
(c) An Apple programmer.
(d) A entrepreneur in the field of sports.

3. What does Gladwell delay discussing until the next chapter?
(a) How to use innate intelligence even if you do not have a high IQ.
(b) The rest of Langan's story.
(c) Why highly intelligent people are seldom successful.
(d) The rest of Terman's story.

4. Why are children born in a certain part of the year more likely to stand out?
(a) They are called first to play on teams.
(b) If they are born in the summer, they practice more.
(c) There is no likelihood that one child will stand out over another.
(d) They have more growth than the younger ones of the same year.

5. Where does Langan once make an appearance that Gladwell mentions?
(a) A chess meet.
(b) A Senate investigation committee.
(c) A television quiz show.
(d) A group of anthropologists in Brazil.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Stewart Wolf?

2. What data does the table that Gladwell consults to theorize the success of some of the best hockey players in the country include?

3. What is the single most important reason for the success of a group of musicians Ericcson studies?

4. What makes Wolf think it is not the region that is healthy?

5. What time period is the first example of an outlier from?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what does Gladwell attribute the difference between Langan and Oppenheimer?

2. What does Wolf investigate and what does he learn?

3. Why is the local physician's claim unusual, and what does Wolf decide to do?

4. Where is Langan at the time Gladwell writes his book?

5. What does IQ stand for and who developed a test to measure it?

6. Describe Chris Langan's childhood and college years.

7. How are students in the hockey leagues grouped and what is the way the children move into other leagues?

8. What does Anders Ericcson learn in a study he makes of musicians?

9. When are most of Canada's best hockey players born, and why does Barnley think that is so?

10. Who is Bill Joy and what did he do?

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