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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. When was Mike Reynolds’ daughter Kimber shot and killed?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1992.
(c) 2002.
(d) 1979.

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

3. What percentage of people does Gladwell say voted for the Three Strikes Law in the state-wide referendum?
(a) 72%.
(b) 88%.
(c) 53%.
(d) 61%.

4. What childhood trauma did Dr. Freireich’s wife Haroldine share with him?
(a) A parent who killed themselves.
(b) Suffering abuse in school.
(c) Extreme poverty.
(d) Growing up in a war zone.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Gladwell say took in the Jews in France?

2. What role does Gladwell say Gouré liked to play in Paris?

3. Who helped Derksen get over the resentment she felt about her daughter’s killer’s sexual sadism?

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

5. How many lives does Gladwell say Reynolds feel like he saved?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Leon Gouré’s approach to American strategy the war in Vietnam?

2. What was Mike Reynolds’ reaction when his daughter Kimber was shot and killed by a meth addict?

3. How did Freireich compensate for the isolation that came from experimenting in the way he did?

4. How does Gladwell say successful dyslexics typically feel about wishing dyslexia on their children?

5. In what way does Gladwell say that northern Ireland is just like a kindergarten classroom?

6. What were the effects of the Three Strikes law that turned public opinion against it, and led to its being “radically scaled back” (248)?

7. What does Gladwell say happened in Montreal when the police went on strike?

8. How did the women of Ballymurphy break the curfew in Lower Falls?

9. How dos Gladwell distinguish between geniuses and prodigies?

10. How does Wyatt Walker say he had to adjust his tactics to the situation at hand?

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