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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. Where does Gladwell say local slingers played a decisive role against an invading army?
(a) Rubicon against the Gauls.
(b) Actium against the Egyptians.
(c) Thermopylae against the Persians.
(d) Sicily against the Greeks.

2. What are the “only two places in the world” where there were "nontrivial beneficial aspects of reduced class sizes” (44)?
(a) The U.S. and UK.
(b) Argentina and Japan.
(c) Germany and France.
(d) Greece and Iceland.

3. When were the Impressionists working toward recognition?
(a) 1880s.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1910s.
(d) 1860s.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What danger does Gladwell say T. E. Lawrence’s men encountered along the way to Aqaba?

2. Which of the Impressionist does Gladwell say would sit moodily in the corner of Café Guerbois?

3. Who does Gladwell say served as the “moral compass” of the Impressionists (64)?

4. Gladwell says that 77% of Americans would rather decrease class size than do what?

5. In the English expression Gladwell quotes, how many generations does it take for families who get rich to be poor again?

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