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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second lesson of Joe Flom?
(a) Litigious distribution.
(b) Demographic luck.
(c) Luck of the Draw.
(d) High birth rates.

2. From what region of the country are the angriest subjects?
(a) North.
(b) Midwest.
(c) They are all equally angry.
(d) South.

3. What does Gladwell say is an inviolate part of the school year?
(a) Moving from grade to grade without challenge.
(b) Summer vacation.
(c) Sports.
(d) Changing classes.

4. When is Joe Flom born?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1940s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1930s.

5. How are rice plants weeded and harvested?
(a) It depends on the species of rice.
(b) With two special machines.
(c) With one machine.
(d) By hand.

6. What percentage above the average student do KIPP students attend school?
(a) 10.
(b) 75.
(c) 15.
(d) 50.

7. What grade level is the school?
(a) Community college.
(b) High.
(c) Elementary.
(d) Middle.

8. Where does Joe Flom grow up?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Washington, D. C.
(c) Miami.
(d) Newark.

9. What does the ground have to be like for a successful rice paddy?
(a) Sandy.
(b) Loamy.
(c) Level.
(d) Well drained.

10. What did the early American educational theorists claim about long hours of school?
(a) It keeps young people out of trouble.
(b) It results in over stimulating the mind.
(c) It engenders strong morals.
(d) It endgenders a strong working ethic.

11. What is Suren Ratwatte's area of expertise?
(a) How human behavior can affect longevity.
(b) How human behavior can affect success.
(c) How human behavior can affect flight safety.
(d) How human behavior can affect perceived threats.

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

13. What determines the amount of crops taken by the government each year?
(a) It is fixed.
(b) The weather.
(c) Any wars going on.
(d) It fluctuates depending on how much the government puts out.

14. Of what does Gladwell say he hopes his readers are skeptical?
(a) Gladwell's statistics.
(b) Typical people.
(c) The need for success.
(d) Typical rags-to-riches stories.

15. How often does the rice farmer have to tend to the rice paddies?
(a) Just in the Spring.
(b) Just in the summer.
(c) Continually.
(d) Two or three times a month.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does it crash?

2. Why does Flom and those of his generation have their pick of good schools?

3. What does Gladwell say about reading schools at the end of one year compared to at the beginning of the next year?

4. What is the KIPP Academy?

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

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