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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter three: Caroline Sacks.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Gladwell says that 77% of Americans would rather decrease class size than do what?
(a) Increase teacher pay.
(b) Fund job creation programs.
(c) Pay for new school books.
(d) Consolidate schools.

3. Which of the Impressionist does Gladwell say would sit moodily in the corner of Café Guerbois?
(a) Pisarro.
(b) Cézanne.
(c) Monet.
(d) Degas.

4. Why does Gladwell say Goliath said that David was coming at him with multiple sticks?
(a) Because Goliath was dizzy from the altitude.
(b) Because David was carrying several staffs as weapons.
(c) Because David was moving too quickly to be seen in detail.
(d) Because he had double vision and saw two of David’s shepherd’s staff.

5. What does Gladwell say led to declining enrollment in Shepaug Valley Middle School?
(a) Smaller family size.
(b) Closing factories.
(c) Increasing real estate prices.
(d) New train lines.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does “relative deprivation” explain the greater sense of dissatisfaction in the Air Force than in the Military Police, according to Sam Stouffer’s study (78)?

2. When did the Impressionists go out on their own, and form their own exhibition?

3. What does Gladwell say the average class size is now, at Shepaug Valley Middle School?

4. How does Gladwell characterize the building the Paris Salon was held in?

5. How many new teachers does Gladwell say American schools hired between 1996 and 2004?

(see the answer key)

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