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

2. What does Oppenheimer succeed in getting himself appointed as?
(a) The leader of the Manhattan Project.
(b) The FBI's forensics unit.
(c) A professorship at MIT.
(d) The CIA couterintelligence division.

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

4. What is the single most important reason for the success of a group of musicians Ericcson studies?
(a) Practice.
(b) Innate ability.
(c) Parental support.
(d) Exposure at an early age.

5. What does Terman believe will be true of individuals with high IQ scores?
(a) They will be the ones who create most of the inventions that are patented.
(b) They will be successful adults.
(c) They will be more often on the fringes of society.
(d) They will be social misfits.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Langan earn a scholarship to college?

2. What does Gladwell say is required for someone to succeed?

3. What does Langan display at a very young age?

4. When does this band seem to come out of nowhere to rocket to stardom?

5. What is Langan unprepared to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Where is Roseto and who founded it?

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

10. Who is Chris Langan?

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