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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue, A Jamaican Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gladwell say one has to have to gain success?
(a) High intelligence and motivation.
(b) Just smart enough.
(c) Just high intelligence.
(d) High intelligence and a good family life.

2. What does Gladwell delay discussing until the next chapter?
(a) The rest of Terman's story.
(b) How to use innate intelligence even if you do not have a high IQ.
(c) Why highly intelligent people are seldom successful.
(d) The rest of Langan's story.

3. When does this band seem to come out of nowhere to rocket to stardom?
(a) 1970s.
(b) Late 1950s.
(c) Mid-1980s.
(d) 1960s.

4. What does George Hofstede research?
(a) Training routines.
(b) Plane crashes.
(c) Cultural differences among countries.
(d) Cultural differences within a country.

5. What is not unique in Harlan?
(a) Cooperation between various wealthy families to the detriment of the poor.
(b) A spirit of community.
(c) Feuds between two families.
(d) Large quartz mines.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does access via terminals replace at Joy's college?

2. What occasionally erupts into violence and murder?

3. Where is Harlan?

4. What does Gladwell say has a threshold?

5. What does Oppenheimer succeed in getting himself appointed as?

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