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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role does Gladwell say Gouré liked to play in Paris?
(a) Competent technocrat.
(b) Scholarly consultant.
(c) Charming host.
(d) Renaissance man.

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

3. When does Gladwell say Dr. Freireich determined he wanted to be a doctor?
(a) When he married a woman who was a doctor.
(b) When his mother married a doctor.
(c) When he met a friend whose father was a doctor.
(d) When he had tonsillitis as a kid.

4. Who does Gladwell say took in the Jews in France?
(a) The poor.
(b) The middle class.
(c) The rich.
(d) Marginal people.

5. What does Sean MacStiofain say revolutions are caused by, in the first place?
(a) Collapses in markets.
(b) Brutality of governments.
(c) Increasing strictness in policing.
(d) State-sanctioned injustice.

6. What does Gladwell say was the result when Montreal police went on strike for 16 hours in 1969?
(a) Nothing out of the ordinary.
(b) A few additional robberies.
(c) Fewer crimes.
(d) A spike in bank robberies and street crime.

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

8. How does Gladwell characterize the Brer Rabbit tales for the people who told them?
(a) Negotiations.
(b) Promises.
(c) Wish fulfillments.
(d) Prophecies.

9. Who does Freireich say he was raised by?
(a) An Irish maid.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His aunt.
(d) His sister.

10. 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.

11. What was the size of the budget General McNamara gave to Gouré’s Motivation and Morale project?
(a) $500,000.
(b) $1 million.
(c) $750,000.
(d) $100,000.

12. What was the occasion that brought the British army into Northern Ireland?
(a) A riot in Lower Falls.
(b) Terrorist attacks in London.
(c) Bombings in Belfast.
(d) A gun battle in Ballymurphy.

13. How does Gladwell characterize the Londoners’ response to the bombing?
(a) Dismay.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Terror.
(d) Panic.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What innovation did Freireich make in terms of treating infections in Leukemia patients?

2. What message did Kellen bring to the U.S. government about the Viet Cong?

3. What does Derksen say the consequences of ongoing anger would have been?

4. What does Gladwell say was Wyatt Walker’s general principle for staging direct actions?

5. Why does Gladwell say people in Lower Falls bought their bread daily?

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