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

2. Who utters an audible insult to some of the men in the experiment?
(a) One of the psychologists interviewing the men.
(b) One of the audience members.
(c) A man partially blocking the hallway.
(d) No one.

3. Why do farmers in Europe in the Middle Ages go into a sort of hibernation state?
(a) To rest for the hard work in the Spring.
(b) To keep from starving.
(c) To conserve energy and to eat less.
(d) To keep their bodies from overwork.

4. What type of parenting style seems to be beneficial to the education of children?
(a) The ones who allow the children to choose what they want to do over the summer.
(b) The parents who are so busy, the children have to read to fill their time.
(c) The parents who force their children to work for pay over the summer.
(d) Those who engage their children and offer them opportunities continue to learn and improve over the summer.

5. What do farmers of the Middle Ages do in the summer in Europe?
(a) They separate seeds and set out starter pots.
(b) They work on making the earth better for planting.
(c) They do the sewing and mending.
(d) They are mostly idle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a proxy war?

2. What does Gladwell say is an inviolate part of the school year?

3. Who are the Howards and Turners?

4. What can Chinese farmers do if they produce more than the taxed amount?

5. What is Joe Flom's occupation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What experiment do Dov Cohen and Richard Nisbett conduct in the 1990s?

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

3. What does Gladwell think is the cause of families feuding?

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

5. How does the crash of Flight 801 fit a pattern for Korean Airlines?

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

7. What evidence is there that summer vacations may be hindering the success of many students?

8. What is the second part of the experiment and the final result?

9. What are proxy wars?

10. What is KIPP and who are its students?

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