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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter two: Teresa DeBrito.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Gladwell say Ranadivé’s girls’ strategy was defeated?
(a) When they played really good teams.
(b) When other teams used the press in return.
(c) When refs started calling fouls on them.
(d) When they lost their fastest player.

2. What metric does Gladwell say Hoxby used in evaluating class size?
(a) Grade point average.
(b) Graduation rates.
(c) He does not define a metric.
(d) Retention rates.

3. What does Gladwell say the inverted-U curve expresses?
(a) Stagnation level.
(b) Diminishing marginal returns.
(c) The plateau effect.
(d) The sweet-spot theory.

4. How old does Gladwell say Ranadivé was, when he came to the U.S.?
(a) 6.
(b) 12.
(c) 17.
(d) 10.

5. What will be the consequence for the loser’s people, in the single combat of David and Goliath?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Taxation.
(c) Genocide.
(d) Exile.

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall does Gladwell say the tallest man in the world was?

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

3. What does Gladwell say Ranadivé’s players supplanted ability with?

4. What does Gladwell say Ranadivé felt about his opponents’ view of him?

5. What kind of improvement in outcomes does Caroline Hoxby correlate class size to?

(see the answer key)

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