E1 Honors Novel Study

As explained in section 5 of chapter 1, what is the Matthew Effect?

• Being successful gives you opportunities to be more successful.

• Birth dates have special importance that should not be overlooked.

• Opportunities are often overlooked by people who are already successful.

In the introduction, what was the mystery of Roseto?

• A city where no one had heart disease.

• A community that overcame prejudices after immigrating from Italy.

• A region of New York and Pennsylvania where roses grow uncontrollably.

• A stone that helped scholars translate ancient languages.

What was the purpose of the Roseto example in the introduction?

• To show that not enough doctors take outliers seriously.

• To illustrate how a statistical outlier for obesity and heart disease can affect people's communities.

• To explain that stress negatively affects people physically as well as mentally.

• To demonstrate that we can learn interesting information from strange outliers.

How would you describe the tone of chapter 1?

• Disbelief at the strange coincidences, but then confident explanation.

• Outrage and shock at missing information, but then relief for the solution.

• Confident about a hypothesis, but then sadly disproven.

What sport are the teams playing in chapter 1?

• Football

• Volleyball

• Soccer

• Hockey

The author believes that individual effort and personality are the only things that determine an athlete's success.

• True

• False

The author believes that "self-made men" are more likely to succeed at their goals because they built themselves up from nothing.

• True

• False

The author believes that people can receive small advantages without realizing them.

• True

• False

What birth months are most common for high-achieving hockey players?

• January, February, March

• April, May, June

• July, August, September

• October, November, December

Our novel, Outliers, has a subtitle. What is it?

• Work-in-Progress

• Statistical Chess

• The story of success

• The power of process