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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 kind of brain matter do dyslexics have less of, according to Gladwell?
(a) Cerebral cortex.
(b) White matter.
(c) Amygdala.
(d) Gray matter.

2. What is the one factor Gladwell seems to measure college success by?
(a) Income upon graduation.
(b) Relevance of insights.
(c) Richness of expression.
(d) Depth of understanding.

3. What will be the consequence for the loser’s people, in the single combat of David and Goliath?
(a) Taxation.
(b) Genocide.
(c) Exile.
(d) Slavery.

4. What are the “only two places in the world” where there were "nontrivial beneficial aspects of reduced class sizes” (44)?
(a) The U.S. and UK.
(b) Germany and France.
(c) Argentina and Japan.
(d) Greece and Iceland.

5. Which of the Impressionist does Gladwell say would sit moodily in the corner of Café Guerbois?
(a) Pisarro.
(b) Cézanne.
(c) Degas.
(d) Monet.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does David do after he stuns Goliath?

3. What percentage of wars were won by weaker countries, according to Ivan Arreguin-Toft?

4. What modern weapon does Gladwell compare David’s slung stone to?

5. What does Gladwell say is the best way to raise test scores on the Cognitive Reflection Test?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Gladwell say is the advantage David has over Goliath?

4. What was the strategy Ranadivé used so effectively?

5. What did Ranadivé find was the disadvantage of his success with his coaching style?

6. What is the lesson Gladwell wants us to take from his parable of David and Goliath?

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

8. What does Gladwell say is Gary Cohn’s emotional relationship with the daring leaps he took, to get himself into trading, from selling aluminum siding?

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

10. In what way does Gladwell say Ranadivé’s girls are similar to Lawrence of Arabia?

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