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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What trait does Gladwell say made Brer Rabbit formidable?
(a) He was quick.
(b) He was irrepressible.
(c) He was slick.
(d) He was powerful.

2. Why does Gladwell say even our understanding of the David and Goliath dynamics, and the advantages of small guerilla forces, not change the way we conduct wars like Vietnam?
(a) Because each generation has to learn it for themselves.
(b) Because there is a stigma about using received information.
(c) Because the country profits from war in other ways.
(d) Because war planners are invested in the war.

3. When did Bill Hudson take the famous photo of the dog attacking the peaceful protestor?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1965.

4. What was Birmingham’s reputation in America at the time Hudson took his photo?
(a) The most dangerous city in America.
(b) The most violent city in America.
(c) The most racially divided city in America.
(d) The most progressive city in America.

5. What does Gladwell say was Wyatt Walker’s general principle for staging direct actions?
(a) They had to be flashy.
(b) They had to build.
(c) They had to be moveable.
(d) They had to be powerful

6. What does Gladwell say about people who have “emerged from some kind of trauma” (161)?
(a) Society needs to cure them.
(b) Society needs them.
(c) Society needs to regulate them.
(d) Society needs to replicate them.

7. What kind of officers does Gladwell say were attracted to K-9 duty?
(a) Career policemen.
(b) Straight shooters.
(c) Thugs.
(d) Warriors.

8. How does Gladwell characterize Leon Gouré?
(a) A bookish expert.
(b) A confident ladies man.
(c) A hard-nosed businessman.
(d) A swashbuckling military man.

9. Why does Gladwell say the Royal Scots were the least helpful regiment to patrol the Catholic neighborhood of Lower Falls?
(a) They were not accountable through the regular chain of command.
(b) They were known for brutality.
(c) They were staunchly Protestant.
(d) They had just returned from suppressing violent insurrections elsewhere.

10. What does Gladwell say geniuses require that prodigies do not?
(a) Loving parents.
(b) Resentment.
(c) Adverse conditions.
(d) Supportive surroundings.

11. How many lives does Gladwell say Reynolds feel like he saved?
(a) Multiple thousands a month.
(b) Hundreds a week.
(c) Six every day.
(d) One a day.

12. How does Gladwell say General Freeland’s search for weapons in Lower Falls turned into a riot and battle?
(a) Freeland’s men killed a priest on their way out of the neighborhood.
(b) Freeland’s men were ambushed by the IRA.
(c) Freeland’s men committed atrocities against the people, then bragged of it.
(d) Freeland’s men stopped to fight instead of just leaving.

13. What was the lesson Derksen took from the visit from the man whose child had been killed?
(a) Seek justice though it kills you.
(b) Make something good come of this.
(c) Do not end up like this poor man.
(d) Do not let the death be in vain.

14. Where did Konrad Kellen’s people come from?
(a) England.
(b) The U.S.
(c) Russia.
(d) Germany.

15. How much does Gladwell say the odds increase, that a child of an incarcerated parent will have a psychiatric disorder?
(a) 250%.
(b) 350%.
(c) 400%.
(d) 150%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the Three Strikes law drafted?

2. What audacious message did André Trocmé’s students deliver to the Vichy minister of youth affairs?

3. Where did Leon Gouré’s people come from?

4. What does Gladwell say Freireich’s mother did to keep the family together?

5. Who helped Derksen get over the resentment she felt about her daughter’s killer’s sexual sadism?

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