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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) There is no correlation between hockey and soccer.
(d) The birth fact is not as pronounced since size is not such a factor in soccer.

2. What does Gladwell say is required for someone to succeed?
(a) Being an entrepreneur.
(b) Practical intelligence.
(c) High intelligence.
(d) Luck.

3. What is the Stanford-Binet test?
(a) A test for unusual blood patterns.
(b) A test for intelligence.
(c) A test for behavior psychosis.
(d) A test for mutant genes in a family line.

4. How are Oppenheimer's social skills?
(a) Poor.
(b) Extremely high.
(c) Good.
(d) Barely adequate.

5. What is the Memorial Cup?
(a) The highest trophy of the Swedish Hockey League.
(b) The highest trophy of the American Hockey League.
(c) The highest trophy of the Russian Hockey League.
(d) The highest trophy of the Canadian Hockey League.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Langan earn a scholarship to college?

2. What does Joy do almost day in and day out at college?

3. What does Terman believe will be true of individuals with high IQ scores?

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

5. What company does Joy co-found?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gladwell assert about intelligence and what analogy does he use?

2. What experiment does Lewis Terman carry out beginning in the 1920s?

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

4. What is the 10,000-Hour Rule?

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

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

7. What makes Roseto an "outlier" town and how does this fact come to light?

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

9. What does having a high IQ give a person?

10. What does Gladwell write about the rock group called The Beatles?

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