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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 6, Gladwell tells the story of a Chinese professor working for an American university who asked about a mountain where?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) Argentina.
(c) Maine.
(d) New York.

2. Georgia Sadler desired to spread information about breast cancer and diabetes in what community?
(a) Jewish.
(b) African-American.
(c) Hispanic.
(d) Asian American.

3. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood was adapted to film in what year?
(a) 2005.
(b) 1996.
(c) 2002.
(d) 2010.

4. Philip Zimbardo is a social scientist at what university?
(a) Stanford University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Yale University.

5. Where was the Airwalk shoes company based?
(a) Los Angeles, California.
(b) San Diego, California.
(c) New York, New York.
(d) San Francisco, California.

Short Answer Questions

1. What designer put a twenty-five foot Bassett hound on the roof of his Hollywood store, according to the author in the Introduction?

2. In Chapter 7, the author states that researchers discovered that news coverage of suicide directly correlated with what?

3. Gladwell proposes that if tobacco companies would only lower what, it would lower the likelihood that a social smoker would become a regular smoker in their teen years?

4. What refers to casual drinking in a social setting without an intent to get drunk?

5. Mark Alpert is a professor at what university?

(see the answer key)

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