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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 Suren Ratwatte's area of expertise?
(a) How human behavior can affect longevity.
(b) How human behavior can affect success.
(c) How human behavior can affect perceived threats.
(d) How human behavior can affect flight safety.

2. What did the early American educational theorists claim about long hours of school?
(a) It keeps young people out of trouble.
(b) It engenders strong morals.
(c) It results in over stimulating the mind.
(d) It endgenders a strong working ethic.

3. What is the most important thing in the type of culture Gladwell examines in Kentucky?
(a) Loyalty to country.
(b) Love of the land.
(c) Frugal living.
(d) Loyalty to clan or family.

4. Why do Flom and his colleagues take on proxy wars?
(a) They enjoy figuring out how to keep it just legal.
(b) They are able to save the companies a great deal of money.
(c) They are excluded from taking more respectable work.
(d) They like the excitement of it.

5. Of what heritage is Joe Flom?
(a) Hispanic.
(b) Arab.
(c) Irish.
(d) Jewish.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the pilot described?

2. From what region of the country are the angriest subjects?

3. How are these proxy wars characterized?

4. What does Gladwell think is the reason for the success of the KIPP Academy?

5. Where do Cohen and Nisbett conduct an experiment?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does PDI explain the crash of the Colombian airliner?

2. Why is Flom willing to work proxy wars?

3. What does Gladwell think is the cause of families feuding?

4. How does Harlan gain notoriety in its early days?

5. What is the second lesson of Joe Flom?

6. What does Gladwell say about early American educational theorists?

7. What experiment do Dov Cohen and Richard Nisbett conduct in the 1990s?

8. How does understanding math relate to growing rice?

9. What is KIPP and who are its students?

10. Why doesn't Joe Flom work for a large, prestigious law group when he graduates from law school?

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