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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 not unique in Harlan?
(a) Large quartz mines.
(b) Cooperation between various wealthy families to the detriment of the poor.
(c) Feuds between two families.
(d) A spirit of community.

2. What did early American educational theorists claim about education?
(a) Too much education is not good for average people.
(b) Not everyone who is educated is wise.
(c) Anyone can attain a high level of excellence if s/he works hard enough.
(d) Education is not for those who prefer the school of hard knocks.

3. Why does Flom and those of his generation have their pick of good schools?
(a) The supply of students is relatively low.
(b) College is not valued at that time.
(c) College is just becoming popular and so colleges are competing to get students.
(d) New universities are arising rapidly in this era.

4. Who are the Borgenichts?
(a) A group who eschew luxury.
(b) A family in the garment industry in New York.
(c) A family of vintners in New York.
(d) A family of lawyers from New England.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Koreans and Colombians have in common?

2. Why does the pilot have difficulty seeing the runway?

3. What does George Hofstede research?

4. What is the Colombian pilot's attitude when he communicates the plane's situation to the air traffic controller?

5. What do the pilot and co-pilot of a Colombian airplane that crashes fail to effectively communicate?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does understanding math relate to growing rice?

2. What is Gladwell's general premise about the connection between growing rice and the success of Asian peoples?

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

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

5. What is the third lesson of Joe Flom?

6. Why is Flom willing to work proxy wars?

7. What is the second part of the experiment and the final result?

8. How do Korean Airlines change their bad record of crashes?

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

10. What is entailed in growing rice?

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