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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 the town of Roseto have in great abundance when Wolf is conducting his investigations?
(a) Money.
(b) Structure.
(c) A sense of community.
(d) Leisure time.

2. What is Oppenheimer able to do even though he has some disadvantages?
(a) Convince people to help him.
(b) Believe in the basic goodness in people.
(c) Make a game plan and stick to it.
(d) Believe in himself.

3. What keeps Langan from talking his way into some class changes at the second college he attends?
(a) An inferiority complex.
(b) A lack of drive.
(c) A lack of social skills.
(d) An unusually strong deference to authority.

4. What does Langan do after dropping out of the second college?
(a) Works construction.
(b) Moves to New York City to panhandle.
(c) Works on his family's farm.
(d) Joins a rock band.

5. What does Gladwell call having a higher IQ?
(a) A curse.
(b) An advantage.
(c) A blessing.
(d) A liability.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wolf investigate among the families of Roseto?

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

3. What does Roger notice about the majority of the hockey players in the game he is watching?

4. How is Langan's family situated financially?

5. Which country's public school system has a similar effect to that found in Hungarian and Czechoslovakian soccer leagues?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where is Roseto and who founded it?

3. What table of data does Gladwell insert in his book at this point?

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

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

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

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

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 Gladwell say a surface examination of the Canadian hockey league system would suggest?

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