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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 many hours does one have to practice something to become an expert?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) It depends upon how complex the task is.
(d) 1,000.

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

3. What is the age when this countries hockey play is at the pinnacle of success for young people?
(a) 12-14.
(b) 21-25.
(c) 17-19.
(d) 14-15.

4. What does Lewis Terman begin doing in the 1920s?
(a) Trying to raise IQ scores through rigorous training.
(b) Trying to measure resistance to intelligence.
(c) Following the lives of very intelligent children.
(d) Trying to develop a non-biased IQ test.

5. What is the computer center where Joy goes to college like at that time?
(a) In the top 25 percent of university computer programs.
(b) In the top 10 percent of university computer programs.
(c) The best in the world.
(d) Just beginning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Langan despair of publishing his theory?

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

3. What keeps Langan from talking his way into some class changes at the second college he attends?

4. What does the town of Roseto have in great abundance when Wolf is conducting his investigations?

5. Where does Langan earn a scholarship to college?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Robert Oppenheimer and what does he accomplish?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. With what definition does Gladwell open his book?

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

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