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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the evaluation system that works well for several years, until employees find a way to "game" it?
2. What begins Jack's transition phase in Chapter 4?
3. What does Jack learn from GE veterans about the company's routine employee appraisals?
4. What do young Jack and his friends do to earn a little spare change?
5. How does Jack lose his college scholarship funded by the country club?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Jack's unique approach to marketing industrial plastics in the 1970s?
2. How does Jack's mother teach him the value of competition?
3. Briefly define and discuss QMI.
4. Why is Jack disgruntled with his first $1,000 raise at GE?
5. Briefly outline the trade between GE and a French government-owned electronics company and its benefit to GE.
6. What are Jack's thoughts on changing himself in order to change his company?
7. What is unique about GE's Crotonville training facility?
8. What are Jack's beliefs regarding self-confidence?
9. What is a "Work-Out" and what is its role in GE?
10. Why does the media begin to refer to Jack as "Neutron Jack"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How important are the qualifications of the creator in this book? What questions can a reader ask to determine the creator's qualifications?
Essay Topic 2
A main character in a work of fiction has both good and bad qualities, giving the character dimension. In nonfiction, the main character is known as the subject. Jack is the subject of his own book. What are Jack's bad qualities? Support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the scope of a work of nonfiction. What is the scope of Jack: Straight from the Gut?
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