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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 health issue is rarely seen in Roseto at the time Wolf visits the town?
(a) Lung cancer.
(b) Heart disease.
(c) Strokes.
(d) Polio.

2. What does Langan do after dropping out of the second college?
(a) Moves to New York City to panhandle.
(b) Works on his family's farm.
(c) Joins a rock band.
(d) Works construction.

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

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

5. What is the first half Matthew effect?
(a) When you're on a roll, sometimes you win just because your success intimidates.
(b) Those who have much will get even more.
(c) A high IQ is required for chess success.
(d) If it can't be seen, it can't be talked about and it can't win an Academy award.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Bill Joy?

2. What does Lewis Terman begin doing in the 1920s?

3. Who is Anders Ericcson?

4. What group of people founded Roseto, Pennsylvania?

5. What does Gladwell think that being taller than another basketball player will do for a basketball player?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Anders Ericcson learn in a study he makes of musicians?

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

3. 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?

4. Describe Canada's system of amateur hockey leagues.

5. To what does Gladwell attribute the difference between Langan and Oppenheimer?

6. When are most of Canada's best hockey players born, and why does Barnley think that is so?

7. Who is Robert Oppenheimer and what does he accomplish?

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

9. What did the experiment track and what are the results?

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

(see the answer keys)

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