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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. How are children grouped to play hockey in the country Gladwell discusses?
(a) By size.
(b) By class.
(c) By region.
(d) By age.

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

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

4. In what year does Joy start college?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1971.

5. Who is Roger Barnsley?
(a) A British hockey coach.
(b) A Canadian psychologist.
(c) A Swedish exercise physiologist.
(d) A German psychiatrist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Langan display at a very young age?

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

3. Which country's public school system has a similar effect to that found in Hungarian and Czechoslovakian soccer leagues?

4. What is the Stanford-Binet test?

5. How many of the musicians make it to the highest level of musicianship through talent alone?

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