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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter eight: Wilma Derksen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the trait that allowed IKEA CEO Kamprad to pull off moving his production facilities to Poland?
(a) Foresight.
(b) Micromanaging.
(c) Negotiating skills.
(d) Patience.

2. What kind of improvement in outcomes does Caroline Hoxby correlate class size to?
(a) Better outcomes.
(b) A wide variety of outcomes, better and worse.
(c) No change.
(d) Worse outcomes.

3. How does Gladwell characterize general Freeland’s tour of the deserted streets of Lower Falls?
(a) Like a lord surveying his manor.
(b) Like a raj on a tiger hunt.
(c) Like a tourist appreciating the sights.
(d) Like a warden managing a prison.

4. What danger does Gladwell say T. E. Lawrence’s men encountered along the way to Aqaba?
(a) Poisonous snakes.
(b) Enemy spies.
(c) Enemy aircraft.
(d) Land mines.

5. Who helped Derksen get over the resentment she felt about her daughter’s killer’s sexual sadism?
(a) A policeman.
(b) A fetishist she met online.
(c) A woman from her church.
(d) Her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many miles a day does Gladwell say T. E. Lawrence’s troops could cover?

2. How many men does Gladwell say T. E. Lawrence’s force captured?

3. How did police find the man who killed Derksen’s daughter?

4. How many deaths does Gladwell say British war planners expected in London in the first week of the German Blitz?

5. Which of the Impressionist does Gladwell say would sit moodily in the corner of Café Guerbois?

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