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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. With whom does Wolf speak at Roseto?
(a) A local politician.
(b) Several local ministers.
(c) A local physician.
(d) Several sociology professors.

2. How are Oppenheimer's social skills?
(a) Good.
(b) Poor.
(c) Extremely high.
(d) Barely adequate.

3. Who developed the Stanford-Binet test?
(a) Lewis Terman.
(b) Erricsson.
(c) Todd Binet.
(d) John Stanford.

4. What is the first half Matthew effect?
(a) A high IQ is required for chess success.
(b) If it can't be seen, it can't be talked about and it can't win an Academy award.
(c) When you're on a roll, sometimes you win just because your success intimidates.
(d) Those who have much will get even more.

5. From what does the title "The Matthew Effect" get its name?
(a) The name of a chess prodigy who has the highest IQ ever recorded.
(b) A young man who won 6 Olympic gold medals at the games in Finland in 1952.
(c) A movie that was only shown in theaters for a couple weeks.
(d) The book of Matthew in the New Testament.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joy cheat a program to obtain?

2. Where does Langan grow up?

3. When does Wolf visit Roseto?

4. What is the single most important reason for the success of a group of musicians Ericcson studies?

5. Where does this band get their start playing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What experiment does Lewis Terman carry out beginning in the 1920s?

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

4. With what definition does Gladwell open his book?

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

6. Who is Bill Joy and what did he do?

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

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

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

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

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