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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 6, Harlan, Kentucky.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what university does Lewis Terman teach?
(a) UC Berkeley.
(b) Stanford.
(c) UCLA.
(d) MIT.

2. Through what age range are the school children tracked?
(a) From very young through into their adult lives.
(b) From very young up until graduation from high school.
(c) From very young until graduation from college.
(d) From very young until ninth grade.

3. What opportunity does Joy have that few students had at that time?
(a) The opportunity to spend 15,000 hours on programming.
(b) The opportunity to spend 1,000 hours on programming.
(c) The opportunity to spend 10,000 hours on programming.
(d) The opportunity to study the results of his coding.

4. Why are children born in a certain part of the year more likely to stand out?
(a) If they are born in the summer, they practice more.
(b) They have more growth than the younger ones of the same year.
(c) There is no likelihood that one child will stand out over another.
(d) They are called first to play on teams.

5. What does Roger notice about the majority of the hockey players in the game he is watching?
(a) Most are born in the first three months of the year.
(b) Most are all born close to midnight.
(c) Most are all at least 70 kg. in weight.
(d) Most are at least 180 cm. tall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is most likely to get into gifted programs in the school system Gladwell mentions?

2. What does Gladwell call the culture of many people who settle in Kentucky?

3. What does Langan do after dropping out of the second college?

4. Who settles Harlan?

5. What company does Joy co-found?

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