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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Langan display at a very young age?
(a) A lack of social skills.
(b) Remarkable intelligence.
(c) The appearance of being slow.
(d) Average intelligence.

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

3. Through what age range are the school children tracked?
(a) From very young up until graduation from high school.
(b) From very young until graduation from college.
(c) From very young until ninth grade.
(d) From very young through into their adult lives.

4. What does Gladwell say has a threshold?
(a) The accuracy of IQ tests.
(b) Statistics.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Tolerance.

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

6. With whom does Bill Gates found Microsoft?
(a) He founds it by himself.
(b) Paul Allen.
(c) Bill Joy.
(d) Steve Jobs.

7. What computer language does Joy help create?
(a) JAVA.
(b) HTML.
(c) FORTRAN.
(d) COBAL.

8. Which country's public school system has a similar effect to that found in Hungarian and Czechoslovakian soccer leagues?
(a) British.
(b) American.
(c) Canadian.
(d) French.

9. When does Wolf visit Roseto?
(a) 1962.
(b) The 1950s.
(c) The 1990s.
(d) 1988.

10. Where does this band get their start playing?
(a) Paris, France.
(b) Dublin, Ireland.
(c) Birmingham, England.
(d) Hamburg, Germany.

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

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

13. What was the leading killer of men under the age of 65 in the 1950s?
(a) Infectious diseases.
(b) Heart attacks.
(c) Car accidents.
(d) Stroke.

14. How is Langan's family situated financially?
(a) Very wealthy.
(b) Middle class.
(c) Upper class.
(d) Very poor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joy cheat a program to obtain?

2. What does Wolf investigate among the families of Roseto?

3. Where does Langan end up living?

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

5. What data does the table that Gladwell consults to theorize the success of some of the best hockey players in the country include?

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