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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. What keeps Langan from talking his way into some class changes at the second college he attends?
(a) An inferiority complex.
(b) An unusually strong deference to authority.
(c) A lack of social skills.
(d) A lack of drive.

2. Where does Langan end up living?
(a) Rural Wyoming.
(b) Rural Missouri.
(c) Rural Mississippi.
(d) Rural South Dakota.

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

4. Who is most likely to get into gifted programs in the school system Gladwell mentions?
(a) Those who are from the middle class and higher.
(b) Those whose parents push their child to succeed.
(c) Those who were not premature babies.
(d) Those who are the oldest of the year group.

5. What is Langan unprepared to do?
(a) Assert himself in an urban setting.
(b) Push past his fears.
(c) Work hard.
(d) Accept mediocrity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gladwell call having a higher IQ?

2. What does Gladwell address before he finishes the story about Chris Langan?

3. With whom does Bill Gates found Microsoft?

4. What does Gladwell find out about soccer leagues in Hungary and Czechoslovakia?

5. How do the experimenters know if the men's hormone levels rise?

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