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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 Gladwell conclude about the heart health of Roseto's residents?
(a) The statistics have been skewed.
(b) The townspeople are exaggerating their good health.
(c) It is something about the town itself that keeps its residents free from heart disease.
(d) The townspeople are exaggerating their poor health.

2. 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.

3. Which country's public school system has a similar effect to that found in Hungarian and Czechoslovakian soccer leagues?
(a) American.
(b) Canadian.
(c) British.
(d) French.

4. What is the name of the hockey team Gladwell examines in detail?
(a) Wolf Moon Raiders.
(b) Coyote of Fortune.
(c) Medicine Wheel.
(d) Medicine Hat Tigers.

5. What is the Memorial Cup?
(a) The highest trophy of the Russian 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 Canadian Hockey League.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Stewart Wolf?

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

3. With whom does Bill Gates found Microsoft?

4. What does Lewis Terman begin doing in the 1920s?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the unusual circumstances in the timing of Bill Joy's career in computer programming?

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

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

4. With what definition does Gladwell open his book?

5. What does Gladwell assert about intelligence and what analogy does he use?

6. What does Gladwell say a surface examination of the Canadian hockey league system would suggest?

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

8. Where is Roseto and who founded it?

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

10. Who is Chris Langan?

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