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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. How are children grouped to play hockey in the country Gladwell discusses?
(a) By age.
(b) By size.
(c) By region.
(d) By class.

2. What does Wolf learn when he examines the diets of the people of Roseto?
(a) Their diet is 90 percent grains, dairy and fruits.
(b) Their diet is very low fat.
(c) Their diet is 90 percent vegetarian.
(d) Their diet includes fatty and rich foods.

3. What group of people founded Roseto, Pennsylvania?
(a) German immigrants.
(b) Italian immigrants.
(c) Irish immigrants.
(d) Swedish immigrants.

4. Why does Langan despair of publishing his theory?
(a) No credentials.
(b) It is not finished.
(c) It is unprovable.
(d) It would be considered too wacky.

5. What does Gladwell say about the residents of Roseto as far as their health?
(a) They are poorer than average compared to other Americans.
(b) They are remarkably healthy compared to other Americans.
(c) He does not mention their health.
(d) They are average compared to other Americans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the leading killer of men under the age of 65 in the 1950s?

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

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

4. What do Barnsley and a colleague find when they do further investigation into the entire country's professional hockey teams?

5. What is the computer center where Joy goes to college like at that time?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did the experiment track and what are the results?

6. 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?

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

8. What does Wolf finally decide is the reason for the low number of heart disease-related deaths?

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

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

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