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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 is a proxy war?
(a) When some people vote in proxy to remove key executives.
(b) When shareholders in the company vote and replace the board of directors with people who will agree to the company being acquired.
(c) When two companies war over the same contract.
(d) When two companies appoint proxies to infiltrate the other company.

2. What is not unique in Harlan?
(a) Feuds between two families.
(b) Cooperation between various wealthy families to the detriment of the poor.
(c) A spirit of community.
(d) Large quartz mines.

3. Where does Joe Flom grow up?
(a) Washington, D. C.
(b) Newark.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Miami.

4. What grade level is the school?
(a) Middle.
(b) Elementary.
(c) Community college.
(d) High.

5. What are people quick to do in the type of culture Gladwell examines in Kentucky?
(a) Put away their money.
(b) Defend their families.
(c) Defend their land.
(d) Defend their country.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men have to do after performing the task asked of them?

2. What does Korean Airlines perform?

3. What type of parenting style seems to be beneficial to the education of children?

4. What is one characteristic of a rice paddy?

5. Where do Cohen and Nisbett conduct an experiment?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does understanding math relate to growing rice?

2. What are proxy wars?

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

4. Why is Flom willing to work proxy wars?

5. Who is Joe Flom?

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

7. What is entailed in growing rice?

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

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

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

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