1) What claim does the writer make about social connections in the first paragraph? a) Our closest friends are in our immediate social circles. b) We are not as removed from each other as we think. c) Every individual shares the same social connections. d) Some people have more unlikely connections than others. 2) In line 25, what does the great and the good mean? a) popular figures b) powerful leaders c) important people d) friendly individuals 3) What is true about Stanley Milgram's experiment' a) It had its own dedicated website. b) The results can be applied to films. c) It became the subject of a popular play. d) The scientific community rejected the conclusior 4) What can we infer about the experiments carried out in the 2000s? a) They supported Milgram's degrees theory. b) The results of the experiments were exactly the same. c) They generated greater interest in Milgram's study d) The human chains needed to connect  5) According to the writer, financial markets a) alike because they both regularly fail. b) more successful when network theory is applied. c) both made up of individual but connected parts. d) dissimilar to transmittable diseases. 6) What are the practical implications of network science? a) It could explain how epidemics spread. b) It may prevent financial markets from crashing c) It will identify the intrinsic value of a product. d) It could be used to predict popular trends.

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