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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Langan lose his scholarship?
2. What does Gladwell conclude about the heart health of Roseto's residents?
3. What does Lewis Terman begin doing in the 1920s?
4. Who is Roger Barnsley?
5. How are children grouped to play hockey in the country Gladwell discusses?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Gladwell assert about intelligence and what analogy does he use?
2. To what does Gladwell attribute the difference between Langan and Oppenheimer?
3. Who is Robert Oppenheimer and what does he accomplish?
4. What did the experiment track and what are the results?
5. What is the origination of the title of this chapter, "The Matthew Effect"?
6. What does Gladwell say a surface examination of the Canadian hockey league system would suggest?
7. With what definition does Gladwell open his book?
8. What makes Roseto an "outlier" town and how does this fact come to light?
9. What does IQ stand for and who developed a test to measure it?
10. Where is Roseto and who founded it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Gladwell opens his book with a dictionary definition of the word "outlier." It is "something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body," and also "a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from others of the sample." His first example of an outlier is the town of Roseto, Pennsylvania in the first half of the 20th century.
1. In your own words, give a definition of an outlier. Use examples from Outliers to support your answer.
2. Discuss the reasons you think outliers are valuable for research purposes. Use examples from Outliers to support your answer.
3. Explain, in your own words, why the town of Roseto, Pa. is an outlier and make-up another example of a town that would be an outlier. Use examples from Outliers to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Gladwell gives the example of Harlan, Kentucky to introduce a discussion of how a person's cultural legacy can affect their success.
1. Define cultural legacy in your own words and give an example of it that is not in Outliers.
2. Discuss two examples of cultural legacy that are beneficial to an individual. Use examples from Outliers to support your answer.
3. Define, according to the values of honor, integrity, hard work, response to authority and honesty what you think your cultural legacy is. Use examples from Outliers to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Chapter 5 is called "The Three Lessons of Joe Flom." Joe Flom is a partner in a very successful New York law firm.
1. Discuss, in depth, the three lessons of Joe Flom. Use examples from Outliers to support your answer.
2. How do you think the lessons of Joe Flom might relate to the idea of fate or destiny? Use examples from Outliers to support your answer.
3. Do you think Joe's success, in his circumstances, was because he was Jewish or do you think any discriminated against minority might have fared the same? Why or why not? Use examples from Outliers to support your answer.
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