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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the computer center where Joy goes to college like at that time?
(a) The best in the world.
(b) Just beginning.
(c) In the top 25 percent of university computer programs.
(d) In the top 10 percent of university computer programs.

2. Why are children born in a certain part of the year more likely to stand out?
(a) They are called first to play on teams.
(b) There is no likelihood that one child will stand out over another.
(c) If they are born in the summer, they practice more.
(d) They have more growth than the younger ones of the same year.

3. Why does Langan lose his scholarship?
(a) His mother does not turn in required paperwork.
(b) His grades fall.
(c) He fails to work the amount of hours he is supposed to.
(d) He will not major in what is required by the scholarship.

4. What does Roger notice about the majority of the hockey players in the game he is watching?
(a) Most are at least 180 cm. tall.
(b) Most are born in the first three months of the year.
(c) Most are all at least 70 kg. in weight.
(d) Most are all born close to midnight.

5. Who is Anders Ericcson?
(a) A psychiatrist.
(b) A sociologist.
(c) A psychologist.
(d) A statistician.

6. How are Oppenheimer's social skills?
(a) Barely adequate.
(b) Good.
(c) Poor.
(d) Extremely high.

7. What is the age when this countries hockey play is at the pinnacle of success for young people?
(a) 14-15.
(b) 12-14.
(c) 21-25.
(d) 17-19.

8. What is the main business of Roseto in the early years of its founding?
(a) Farming.
(b) Wine.
(c) Wool.
(d) Slate quarry.

9. What company does Joy co-found?
(a) Intel.
(b) IBM.
(c) Sun Microsystems.
(d) Microsoft.

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

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

12. What does Gladwell call having a higher IQ?
(a) An advantage.
(b) A curse.
(c) A blessing.
(d) A liability.

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

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

15. Who developed the Stanford-Binet test?
(a) Todd Binet.
(b) Lewis Terman.
(c) John Stanford.
(d) Erricsson.

Short Answer Questions

1. To where does Langan transfer from his first college?

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

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

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

5. What does Gladwell say Roseto, Pennsylvania is an example of?

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