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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. Gladwell says the Borgenichts are successful but never what?
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Dishonest.
(c) Pretentious.
(d) Ambitious.
2. Of what does Gladwell say the average student needs more?
(a) Better facilities.
(b) Summer break.
(c) Breaks throughout the year.
(d) School.
3. What grade level is the school?
(a) Community college.
(b) Elementary.
(c) High.
(d) Middle.
4. What does Gladwell say about reading schools at the end of one year compared to at the beginning of the next year?
(a) The poorest students make no progress in their reading skills over the summer.
(b) The most average studentsstudents make no progress in their reading skills over the summer.
(c) The smartest students make no progress in their reading skills over the summer.
(d) Only the very brightest students students make progress in their reading skills over the summer.
5. What determines the amount of crops taken by the government each year?
(a) Any wars going on.
(b) It fluctuates depending on how much the government puts out.
(c) It is fixed.
(d) The weather.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did the early American educational theorists claim about long hours of school?
2. What does Gladwell say is an inviolate part of the school year?
3. What do some countries consider doing with Korean Airlines?
4. What is the KIPP Academy?
5. What is one group of people worldwide who have developed the culture Gladwell examines in Kentucky?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Gladwell's general premise about the connection between growing rice and the success of Asian peoples?
2. What evidence is there that summer vacations may be hindering the success of many students?
3. What is the third lesson of Joe Flom?
4. What is KIPP and who are its students?
5. What is Gladwell's interpretation of Cohen and Nisbett's experiment?
6. Who is Joe Flom?
7. How does understanding math relate to growing rice?
8. How does PDI explain the crash of the Colombian airliner?
9. Why is Flom willing to work proxy wars?
10. What is entailed in growing rice?
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