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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 wars were won by weaker countries, when the weaker countries use guerilla tactics, according to Ivan Arreguin-Toft?
(a) 44%.
(b) 29%.
(c) 55%.
(d) 63%.

2. What does Gladwell say is the benefit of bigger classes?
(a) More resources for each student.
(b) More attention for each student.
(c) More diversity.
(d) Less stress on the teacher.

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

4. What kind of improvement in outcomes does Caroline Hoxby correlate class size to?
(a) Worse outcomes.
(b) A wide variety of outcomes, better and worse.
(c) No change.
(d) Better outcomes.

5. What does Gladwell say dyslexia is?
(a) A problem with reading aloud.
(b) A problem with speaking.
(c) A problem with reading.
(d) A problem in how people hear and manipulate sounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gladwell say the average class size used to be at Shepaug Valley Middle School?

2. How does Gladwell characterize “disagreeableness” (118)?

3. What does Gladwell say Ranadivé’s players supplanted ability with?

4. When does Gladwell say Ranadivé’s girls’ strategy was defeated?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gladwell say is the conventional wisdom about class size in schools?

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

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

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

5. How does Gladwell say dyslexia helped prepare David Boies to be a trial lawyer?

6. What are the factors that this conventional wisdom overlooks, in Gladwell’s account?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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