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

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

3. Why did Wyatt Walker get criticism for setting up the protest that resulted in Bill Hudson’s photo?
(a) He was ignoring pressing concerns elsewhere.
(b) He was using children as pawns.
(c) He was putting himself in danger.
(d) He was making the protestors look foolish.

4. How does Gladwell characterize the procedures Freireich was performing on his patients?
(a) Research.
(b) Torture.
(c) Science.
(d) Industry.

5. How does Gladwell characterize Leon Gouré?
(a) A bookish expert.
(b) A swashbuckling military man.
(c) A confident ladies man.
(d) A hard-nosed businessman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gladwell characterize Freireich’s management style?

2. How does Gladwell characterize the mistake the British made in Northern Ireland?

3. Where did Leon Gouré’s people come from?

4. Why does Gladwell say even our understanding of the David and Goliath dynamics, and the advantages of small guerilla forces, not change the way we conduct wars like Vietnam?

5. What was the British army doing in Lower Falls, Belfast, while they instituted the curfew?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gladwell say André Trocmé subverted the laws in Vichy France?

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

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

4. How does Gladwell explain the trait that allowed Londoners to go about their business during the Blitz?

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

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

7. Where had Kellen gotten his background for the RAND job to consult on the Vietnam war?

8. How dos Gladwell distinguish between geniuses and prodigies?

9. What was the effect of the Three Strikes law in California?

10. What does Gladwell say allowed Wilma Derksen to forgive her daughter’s murderer?

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