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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is sometimes defined as drinking alcohol solely for the purpose of intoxication?
(a) Tolerance.
(b) Social drinking.
(c) Inadequate drinking.
(d) Binge drinking.

2. The author states in Chapter 5 that a person's brain only remembers about how many types of a particular item?
(a) 3 or 4.
(b) 4 or 5.
(c) 9 or 10.
(d) 6 or 7.

3. When the New York City Subway system came under new directorship at the height of crime problems, the second area of change was what?
(a) Drinking on subways.
(b) Fare beating.
(c) Random drug searches.
(d) Graffiti.

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

5. In 1993, Airwalk was a $16 million company. In 1994, it had sales of how much?
(a) $70 million.
(b) $62 million.
(c) $25 million.
(d) $44 million.

6. What theory does the author cite which states that presence of vandalism in a neighborhood incites people to commit other more serious acts that they would never believe they might get away with in a nicer, cleaner neighborhood?
(a) The vandalism theory.
(b) The hidden crime theory.
(c) The broken windows theory.
(d) The ghetto theory.

7. The failure of many anti-smoking campaigns has been the focus on what, according to the author?
(a) The cigarette.
(b) Health risks.
(c) Teenagers.
(d) Adults.

8. What concept in cognitive psychology refers to the amount of space in the brain for certain kinds of information, according to the author in Chapter 5?
(a) Psychometric capacity.
(b) Channel capacity.
(c) Interactive capacity.
(d) Carpal capacity.

9. According to the author in Chapter 5, the Methodist movement became epidemic in England and North America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, tipping from 20,000 to how many followers in the U.S. in the 1780s?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 62,000.
(c) 90,000.
(d) 150,000.

10. What is a term used to describe the use of drugs or other self-soothing forms of behavior to treat untreated and often undiagnosed mental distress?
(a) Self-medication.
(b) Addiction.
(c) Tolerance.
(d) Care management.

11. Where did Bernie Goetz earn a bachelor’s degree?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) New York University.
(c) The University of Texas.
(d) California State University.

12. Who conducted an analysis of the spread of hybrid seed corn in Green County, Iowa, according to the author in Chapter 6?
(a) Todd Kessler and Tom Gau.
(b) Chad Farmer and David Gunn.
(c) Rebecca Smith and Fannie Anderson.
(d) Bruce Ryan and Neal Gross.

13. In Chapter 7, Gladwell suggests not fighting to stop teen experimentation, which would be difficult, but to make the experimentation what?
(a) Impossible.
(b) Safer.
(c) Riskier.
(d) Controlled.

14. What New York City Subway train was Bernie Goetz riding when he was mugged?
(a) A train.
(b) F train.
(c) No. 6 train.
(d) No. 2 train.

15. One of the researchers who rode in the needle exchange vans in Baltimore to interview super-exchangers was an epidemiologist by what name?
(a) Todd Kessler.
(b) Chad Farmer.
(c) Tom Valente.
(d) Tom Junge.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 6, an average heroin addict goes through how many needles a day?

2. At a time when suicide was still rare in Micronesia, one unnamed boy suffered the emotional distress of what, according to the author in Chapter 7?

3. Where did Bernie Goetz and his sister attend boarding school for high school?

4. One of the reasons Gladwell attributes to the success of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is that the author is also what?

5. What serves as the greatest predictor for their smoking patterns, according to the author in Chapter 7?

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