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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. From what region of the country are the angriest subjects?
(a) North.
(b) South.
(c) They are all equally angry.
(d) Midwest.
2. What is the Colombian pilot's attitude when he communicates the plane's situation to the air traffic controller?
(a) Angry.
(b) Casual.
(c) He does not mention their fuel situation at all.
(d) Intense.
3. What does Gladwell say is an inviolate part of the school year?
(a) Summer vacation.
(b) Changing classes.
(c) Moving from grade to grade without challenge.
(d) Sports.
4. What do the men have to do after performing the task asked of them?
(a) Undergo a battery of psychological tests.
(b) Write up their impressions of the experience.
(c) Share their experience with an audience.
(d) Walk down a hall to hand it in.
5. Who are the Borgenichts?
(a) A group who eschew luxury.
(b) A family of lawyers from New England.
(c) A family of vintners in New York.
(d) A family in the garment industry in New York.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where is the burden of understanding placed in a conversation between two Koreans?
2. What is one group of people worldwide who have developed the culture Gladwell examines in Kentucky?
3. Where does it crash?
4. Why do farmers in Europe in the Middle Ages go into a sort of hibernation state?
5. What does Gladwell think is the reason for the success of the KIPP Academy?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Joe Flom?
2. What are proxy wars?
3. What is entailed in growing rice?
4. What experiment do Dov Cohen and Richard Nisbett conduct in the 1990s?
5. How does PDI explain the crash of the Colombian airliner?
6. What does Suren Ratwatte say about a Colombian airliner that crashes in New York?
7. What is the second lesson of Joe Flom?
8. What is KIPP and who are its students?
9. What is Gladwell's general premise about the connection between growing rice and the success of Asian peoples?
10. What is the third lesson of Joe Flom?
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