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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 determines the amount of crops taken by the government each year?
(a) It is fixed.
(b) Any wars going on.
(c) The weather.
(d) It fluctuates depending on how much the government puts out.
2. Why does the pilot have difficulty seeing the runway?
(a) Heavy fog.
(b) Heavy rain.
(c) The electricity is off.
(d) Heavy smoke.
3. How many crashes has Korean Airlines experienced in the past twenty years at the time of this study?
(a) Numerous.
(b) 2.
(c) Just that one.
(d) 3.
4. What is one group of people worldwide who have developed the culture Gladwell examines in Kentucky?
(a) Farming groups.
(b) Mining groups.
(c) Industrial groups.
(d) Herding groups.
5. What pattern does Gladwell examine in Kentucky?
(a) Families who go into the garment industry.
(b) Families who go into the tobacco industry.
(c) Families who go into coal mining.
(d) Family feuds.
Short Answer Questions
1. From what region of the country are the angriest subjects?
2. What do the pilots instruments indicate?
3. What is Suren Ratwatte's area of expertise?
4. What does the ground have to be like for a successful rice paddy?
5. Gladwell says the Borgenichts are successful but never what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does understanding math relate to growing rice?
2. How is a work ethic related to growing rice?
3. What experiment do Dov Cohen and Richard Nisbett conduct in the 1990s?
4. How does the crash of Flight 801 fit a pattern for Korean Airlines?
5. Where is Harlan, and who settled it?
6. How does PDI explain the crash of the Colombian airliner?
7. What evidence is there that summer vacations may be hindering the success of many students?
8. What is the second lesson of Joe Flom?
9. Why is Flom willing to work proxy wars?
10. What is Gladwell's interpretation of Cohen and Nisbett's experiment?
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