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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gladwell conclude about the heart health of Roseto's residents?
(a) The townspeople are exaggerating their poor health.
(b) It is something about the town itself that keeps its residents free from heart disease.
(c) The townspeople are exaggerating their good health.
(d) The statistics have been skewed.

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

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

4. How many hours does one have to practice something to become an expert?
(a) It depends upon how complex the task is.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 100,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From what does the title "The Matthew Effect" get its name?

2. Who is Anders Ericcson?

3. What group of people founded Roseto, Pennsylvania?

4. What does Langan work on using his intelligence?

5. Which country's public school system has a similar effect to that found in Hungarian and Czechoslovakian soccer leagues?

Short Essay Questions

1. What table of data does Gladwell insert in his book at this point?

2. What are the unusual circumstances in the timing of Bill Joy's career in computer programming?

3. Where is Roseto and who founded it?

4. What does Wolf investigate and what does he learn?

5. Who is Chris Langan?

6. How does Joy and some of his fellow students make it possible to use the computers more than is allowed and what is the result?

7. How are students in the hockey leagues grouped and what is the way the children move into other leagues?

8. What does Wolf finally decide is the reason for the low number of heart disease-related deaths?

9. With what definition does Gladwell open his book?

10. What is the origination of the title of this chapter, "The Matthew Effect"?

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