View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many men does Gladwell say T. E. Lawrence’s force captured?
(a) 12,000.
(b) 6,000.
(c) 8,000.
(d) 1,200.

2. What error does Gladwell say we make about Goliath?
(a) We overestimate his power.
(b) We underestimate his quickness.
(c) We underestimate his resiliency.
(d) We overstate his vulnerability.

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

4. In the English expression Gladwell quotes, how many generations does it take for families who get rich to be poor again?
(a) Five.
(b) Seven.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

5. Where was Ranadivé’s team based?
(a) Menlo Park, CA.
(b) Albany, NY.
(c) Chattanooga, TN.
(d) Portland, OR.

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

3. How does Gladwell characterize art in the Impressionists’ Paris?

4. Who was most likely to be in Harvard’s “happy bottom quarter” (90)?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 278 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample