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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 computer language does Joy help create?
(a) FORTRAN.
(b) COBAL.
(c) JAVA.
(d) HTML.

2. What health issue is rarely seen in Roseto at the time Wolf visits the town?
(a) Heart disease.
(b) Polio.
(c) Lung cancer.
(d) Strokes.

3. In what year does Joy start college?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1977.

4. To where does Langan transfer from his first college?
(a) UC Berkeley.
(b) Oklahoma State University.
(c) University of Michigan.
(d) University of Montana.

5. Where does Langan earn a scholarship to college?
(a) MIT.
(b) Reed.
(c) UCLA.
(d) Oregon State.

Short Answer Questions

1. What band does Gladwell examine in this chapter?

2. How does Terman find appropriate subjects for his research?

3. What is the Stanford-Binet test?

4. What does Gladwell find out about soccer leagues in Hungary and Czechoslovakia?

5. What does Gladwell say Roseto, Pennsylvania is an example of?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Joy and some of his fellow students make it possible to use the computers more than is allowed and what is the result?

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

6. What does Gladwell say Langan does not seem to be able to do?

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

8. What is Langan working on and when does he expect to publish it?

9. What is the origination of the title of this chapter, "The Matthew Effect"?

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

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