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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gladwell characterize Konrad Kellen’s temperament?
(a) A quiet team player.
(b) Fiercely independent.
(c) A meticulous worker.
(d) Aristocratic.

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

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

4. What does Rosemary Lawlor say was the action that started the snowball effect that broke the curfew in Lower Falls?
(a) Women and children offering themselves to British soldiers’ batons.
(b) Women going in pushing prams with provisions.
(c) Women throwing stones and Molotov cocktails.
(d) Women holding a prayer meeting at a road block.

5. How does Gladwell characterize general Freeland’s tour of the deserted streets of Lower Falls?
(a) Like a lord surveying his manor.
(b) Like a tourist appreciating the sights.
(c) Like a warden managing a prison.
(d) Like a raj on a tiger hunt.

6. How did police find the man who killed Derksen’s daughter?
(a) A witness came forward.
(b) DNA evidence.
(c) The man turned himself in.
(d) An inmate led them to him.

7. What does Gladwell say was the average age of the criminals locked up for their third strikes?
(a) 24.
(b) 18.
(c) 43.
(d) 34.

8. How does Gladwell characterize André Trocmé?
(a) A blessing of a man.
(b) A sinner turned saint.
(c) A wolf in sheep’s clothing.
(d) A violent man conquered by God.

9. What does Gladwell say Freireich’s mother did to keep the family together?
(a) Start a business.
(b) Marry rich.
(c) Move in with her parents.
(d) Work 18 hour days.

10. How does Gladwell say André Trocmé circumvented the Nazi requirement to salute the Nazi flag at the school?
(a) They refused to salute.
(b) They saluted the French flag instead.
(c) They refused to fly the flag.
(d) They did not have a flagpole.

11. What percentage of prominent people had lost a parent by age 20, according to psychologist Marvin Eisenstadt?
(a) 45%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 25%,

12. How does Gladwell characterize Wyatt Walker?
(a) A bully.
(b) A mischief maker.
(c) A friendly giant.
(d) An absolutist.

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

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

15. What does Gladwell say was necessary for Wyatt Walker’s “Project C—” to work?
(a) Bull Connor had to fight back.
(b) Martin Luther King Jr. needed raise a good amount of money.
(c) The protestors needed to fill the jails.
(d) The press needed to publish a great photo.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rosemary Lawlor explain why she was hooked on fighting the British?

2. How does Gladwell say Martin Luther King Jr. prepared his team for their trip to Birmingham?

3. What was the lesson Derksen took from the visit from the man whose child had been killed?

4. What is Wilma Derksen’s religious background?

5. According to researchers Dina Rose and her colleague, what is the threshold for incarceration in a neighborhood, beyond which the “effect on crime starts to reverse” (246)?

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