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

2. How does Gladwell say “Stella” has lost her class’ attention in the video of her classroom from the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia?
(a) By doing a terrible job of teaching.
(b) By constantly changing the activities.
(c) By failing to strongly lay down the rules.
(d) By micromanaging her students’ activities.

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

4. How many deaths does Gladwell say British war planners expected in London in the first week of the German Blitz?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 750,000.
(c) 250,000.
(d) 500,000.

5. What kind of improvement in outcomes does Caroline Hoxby correlate class size to?
(a) A wide variety of outcomes, better and worse.
(b) No change.
(c) Better outcomes.
(d) Worse outcomes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gladwell say David Boies applied for law school?

2. How does Gladwell characterize the effect of Bill Hudson’s famous photo of the dog attacking the peaceful protestor?

3. What metric does Gladwell say Hoxby used in evaluating class size?

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

5. What does Gladwell say about people who have “emerged from some kind of trauma” (161)?

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