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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3, The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is 30 to 35 percent lower in Roseto than the rest of the country?
(a) Suicide rate.
(b) Death rate from strokes.
(c) Death rate from heart disease.
(d) Divorce rate.

2. What does Lewis Terman begin doing in the 1920s?
(a) Following the lives of very intelligent children.
(b) Trying to develop a non-biased IQ test.
(c) Trying to raise IQ scores through rigorous training.
(d) Trying to measure resistance to intelligence.

3. From what does the title "The Matthew Effect" get its name?
(a) The book of Matthew in the New Testament.
(b) A young man who won 6 Olympic gold medals at the games in Finland in 1952.
(c) The name of a chess prodigy who has the highest IQ ever recorded.
(d) A movie that was only shown in theaters for a couple weeks.

4. How many hours does one have to practice something to become an expert?
(a) It depends upon how complex the task is.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 1,000.

5. What does Terman believe will be true of individuals with high IQ scores?
(a) They will be successful adults.
(b) They will be the ones who create most of the inventions that are patented.
(c) They will be more often on the fringes of society.
(d) They will be social misfits.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gladwell say has a threshold?

2. At what university does Lewis Terman teach?

3. What does Joy cheat a program to obtain?

4. Through what age range are the school children tracked?

5. What time period is the first example of an outlier from?

(see the answer key)

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