Outliers Final Test UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Outliers Final Test UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Of what were the people of Roseto dying? - CORRECT ANSWER- old age
In what state did the Rosetans settle? - CORRECT ANSWER- Pennsylvania
Why was Roseto considered an outlier? - CORRECT ANSWER- It was "a place that lay
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Outliers Final Test UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Of what were the people of Roseto dying? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔old age
In what state did the Rosetans settle? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Pennsylvania
Why was Roseto considered an outlier? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔It was "a place that lay
outside everyday experience, where the normal rules did not apply."
How did the investigators explain Roseto's state of healthiness? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔The Rosetans were healthier because of their sense of community.
What does Gladwell say is his main purpose for his book? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔He
wants to redefine the understanding of success in the same way that Stewart Wolf redefined
the understanding of health
What discovery is made about the majority of the most successful hockey players? -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Their birthdays are in the first part of the year.
What does Gladwell suggest to combat arbitrary cut-off dates for elementary and middle
schools? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔group students into January-April birthdays, May-
August birthdays, and September-December birthdays
According to Gladwell, why don't we change this arbitrary eligibility cut-off system for
schools, sports, and other areas? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔We believe that success is
based only on individual merit and talent.
All of the following are Gladwell's arguments in chapter one EXCEPT - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔People rise from nothing.
Gladwell states at first that "Canadian hockey is a meritocracy," but then goes on to discuss
other criteria for success in hockey, arguing that it is not a true meritocracy. "Meritocracy"
means - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔people selected on the basis of their ability
, All of the following are rhetorical strategies Gladwell uses to convey his arguments in the
introduction and chapter one EXCEPT - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔sarcasm
t's not enough to ask what successful people are like . . . It is only by asking
_________________________________ that we can unravel the logic behind
who succeeds and who doesn't." - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔where they are from
According to Gladwell, which of the following seems to play the biggest influence in the
careers of the gifted? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔preparation
Researchers believe that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to obtain - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔True expertise
Which of the following does Gladwell NOT use as an example to illustrate the 10,000 hours
theory? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Einstein
Which of the following was NOT one of the opportunities that came Bill Joy's way? -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Joy scored a perfect score on the math section of the SAT.
What was so significant about The Beatles playing in Hamburg that led to their future
success? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The band was forced to play long amounts of time.
"[W]hat truly distinguishes" the histories of Bill Gates, Bill Joy, and The Beatles "is not their
extraordinary talent but their extraordinary ______________________." - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔none of the above
According to Gladwell, how was being born in the 1830s-1840 an extraordinary opportunity
for people like Rockefeller, Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan, who became some of America's
wealthiest? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔They were able to capitalize on their own vision and
talent during what might be considered the greatest economic transformation in American
history in the 1860s and 1870s.
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