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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 Langan work on using his intelligence?
(a) A theory of instantaneous space travel.
(b) A theory of energy.
(c) A theory to suplement the 100 monkey theory.
(d) A theory of the universe.

2. What do some players from the highest young people's hockey team sometimes go on to do?
(a) Coach professional hockey teams.
(b) Teach hockey in colleges.
(c) Play professionally.
(d) There is no common thing that some of the young people do.

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 Gladwell address before he finishes the story about Chris Langan?
(a) The family of geniuses from which Langan comes.
(b) The idea of IQ having very litte accuracy.
(c) The school system in which Langan grows up.
(d) The subject of IQ.

5. Of what does Gladwell say the average student needs more?
(a) Better facilities.
(b) School.
(c) Breaks throughout the year.
(d) Summer break.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Joe Flom grow up?

2. What is the first half Matthew effect?

3. What does William MacMillan write about after he visits Jamaica?

4. Where is Harlan?

5. Where is the burden of understanding placed in a conversation between two Koreans?

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