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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 pattern does Gladwell examine in Kentucky?
(a) Families who go into the garment industry.
(b) Families who go into coal mining.
(c) Family feuds.
(d) Families who go into the tobacco industry.

2. How are these proxy wars characterized?
(a) Wasteful.
(b) Borderline illegal.
(c) Illegal.
(d) Hostile and messy.

3. What percentage above the average student do KIPP students attend school?
(a) 50.
(b) 10.
(c) 15.
(d) 75.

4. What does Gladwell say Asian cultures value?
(a) Hard work.
(b) Finding one's own niche in society.
(c) Honor.
(d) Diversity.

5. Why does Joe Flom have trouble getting a job after college?
(a) Because he did not make good grades in college.
(b) From being Jewish.
(c) From being Irish.
(d) From being Hispanic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gladwell say about reading schools at the end of one year compared to at the beginning of the next year?

2. How many people are killed in the crash of flight 801?

3. Of what heritage is Joe Flom?

4. Why does Flom and those of his generation have their pick of good schools?

5. What do many of the children of the Borgenichts family and those like them become?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the term "Power Distance Index" and who coins the term.

2. How does the crash of Flight 801 fit a pattern for Korean Airlines?

3. How do the students at KIPP Academy differ from those of other public schools?

4. What is KIPP and who are its students?

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

6. Describe the plane crash of Korean Airlines Flight 801 in 1997.

7. What does Suren Ratwatte say about a Colombian airliner that crashes in New York?

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

9. How does understanding math relate to growing rice?

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

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