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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 neighborhood feeds into KIPP Academy?
(a) One of the worst in the city.
(b) An upper-class area.
(c) It draws from the entire New York City.
(d) An upper, middle-class area.

2. How many crashes has Korean Airlines experienced in the past twenty years at the time of this study?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) Numerous.
(d) Just that one.

3. How are rice plants weeded and harvested?
(a) It depends on the species of rice.
(b) With two special machines.
(c) With one machine.
(d) By hand.

4. What do the pilots instruments indicate?
(a) He is out of fuel.
(b) He is higher than he expects to be.
(c) He is lower than he expects to be.
(d) He has lots of fuel.

5. What is the PDI of people of the United States?
(a) High.
(b) Low.
(c) It's never been measured.
(d) About in the middle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second lesson of Joe Flom?

2. What does Korean airlines realize is a large part of their problem?

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

4. What type of parenting style seems to be beneficial to the education of children?

5. Who settles Harlan?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Gladwell's interpretation of Cohen and Nisbett's experiment?

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

5. What is the third lesson of Joe Flom?

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

7. What evidence is there that summer vacations may be hindering the success of many students?

8. What is the second lesson of Joe Flom?

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

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

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