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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter seven: Rosemary Lawlor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was police officer Joanna Jaffe trying to show the community of Brownsville that the police were on their side?
(a) By getting her officers to play basketball with the residents.
(b) By helping get residents’ family members out of jail.
(c) By helping residents’ kids with their homework.
(d) By helping connect residents to social services.

2. Which part of the brain do dyslexics use more of, during reading, than “normal” readers (100)?
(a) Frontal cortex.
(b) Left hemisphere.
(c) Right hemisphere.
(d) Cerebral cortex.

3. How old was Gladwell’s powerful Hollywood friend, when he started a snow-shoveling business with other students?
(a) 10.
(b) 16.
(c) 12.
(d) 18.

4. What does Gladwell say the Cognitive Reflection Test measures?
(a) Intuition.
(b) Problem solving.
(c) Dyslexia.
(d) Analytic ability.

5. How did Brian Grazer turn his dyslexia into an advantage?
(a) By learning to argue for better grades.
(b) By learning to read very deliberately.
(c) By learning roundabout ways to learn.
(d) By learning to listen really well.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gladwell say is the benefit of bigger classes?

2. How does Gladwell characterize the mistake the British made in Northern Ireland?

3. What does Gladwell say the average class size used to be at Shepaug Valley Middle School?

4. What are the “only two places in the world” where there were "nontrivial beneficial aspects of reduced class sizes” (44)?

5. When does Gladwell say “things got worse” in Northern Ireland (199)?

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