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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of successful entrepreneurs does Gladwell say are dyslexic?
(a) A quarter.
(b) A third.
(c) A half.
(d) A tenth.

2. What does Gladwell say was T. E. Lawrence’s primary target, which he made multiple strikes against?
(a) A harbor.
(b) A city.
(c) A railway line.
(d) A refinery.

3. What does Gladwell say Ranadivé’s players supplanted ability with?
(a) Effort.
(b) Set plays.
(c) Finesse.
(d) Heart.

4. Where does Gladwell say dyslexics’ neurons get “lost along the way” (99)?
(a) In their ventricles.
(b) In their brain stems.
(c) They form behind the eyes.
(d) They get into the blood.

5. Which part of the brain do dyslexics use more of, during reading, than “normal” readers (100)?
(a) Cerebral cortex.
(b) Left hemisphere.
(c) Right hemisphere.
(d) Frontal cortex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will be the consequence for the loser’s people, in the single combat of David and Goliath?

2. Why does Gladwell say that it is preferable to study science at a less competitive school?

3. How does Gladwell characterize art in the Impressionists’ Paris?

4. Where does Gladwell say dyslexic kids are more likely to end up?

5. What does Gladwell say makes parenting more difficult for wealthier parents?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gladwell say dyslexia prepared Brian Grazer to be a movie producer?

2. What is Gladwell’s hierarchy of professions?

3. Why does Gladwell say that Caroline Sacks should have gone to University of Maryland instead of Brown University?

4. Where were the Philistines expanding into, when they encountered the armies of the Israelites?

5. What does Gladwell say about Gary Cohn’s relationship with failure?

6. What is Harvard’s theory of the “happy bottom quarter” (90)?

7. Gladwell seems to want it both ways, valuing poverty and celebrating wealth. Does Gladwell acknowledge or try to resolve this contradiction?

8. What is Vivek Ranadivé’s qualification to coach basketball?

9. What is the chart Gladwell uses, to describe the phenomenon of “diminishing marginal returns” (49)?

10. What are the challenges Gladwell’s powerful Hollywood friend experienced, in raising his children?

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