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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. Of what does Gladwell say the average student needs more?
(a) Summer break.
(b) School.
(c) Breaks throughout the year.
(d) Better facilities.

2. What pattern does Gladwell examine in Kentucky?
(a) Families who go into the garment industry.
(b) Family feuds.
(c) Families who go into coal mining.
(d) Families who go into the tobacco industry.

3. Why does Flom and those of his generation have their pick of good schools?
(a) College is not valued at that time.
(b) The supply of students is relatively low.
(c) College is just becoming popular and so colleges are competing to get students.
(d) New universities are arising rapidly in this era.

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

5. Why do Flom and his colleagues take on proxy wars?
(a) They enjoy figuring out how to keep it just legal.
(b) They like the excitement of it.
(c) They are able to save the companies a great deal of money.
(d) They are excluded from taking more respectable work.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the ask some college-aged men to do?

3. Who are the Hatfields and McCoys?

4. What do Koreans and Colombians have in common?

5. Of what heritage is Joe Flom?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Harlan gain notoriety in its early days?

2. Describe the plane crash of Korean Airlines Flight 801 in 1997.

3. Explain the term "Power Distance Index" and who coins the term.

4. What does Suren Ratwatte say about a Colombian airliner that crashes in New York?

5. What is Gladwell's interpretation of Cohen and Nisbett's experiment?

6. How does PDI explain the crash of the Colombian airliner?

7. How is a work ethic related to growing rice?

8. How do the students at KIPP Academy differ from those of other public schools?

9. Why doesn't Joe Flom work for a large, prestigious law group when he graduates from law school?

10. What does Gladwell say about early American educational theorists?

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