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

2. What audacious message did André Trocmé’s students deliver to the Vichy minister of youth affairs?
(a) We will not salute your flag.
(b) We will only follow God’s laws.
(c) You will not triumph over us.
(d) We have Jews. You will not get them.

3. What made Brer Rabbit formidable to his opponents?
(a) He could always outmaneuver them.
(b) He could not be beaten down.
(c) He understood them better than they understood themselves.
(d) He had secret knowledge.

4. How does Gladwell say Kimber Reynolds’ killer explained why he killed her?
(a) He said that she would not let go of her purse.
(b) He said that his hand slipped on the trigger; he did not mean to kill her.
(c) He said that he hated her because of her beauty.
(d) He said that she was not respecting him.

5. What trait does Gladwell say made Brer Rabbit formidable?
(a) He was powerful.
(b) He was quick.
(c) He was irrepressible.
(d) He was slick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Konrad Kellen’s people come from?

2. How does Gladwell characterize Wyatt Walker’s reaction to the police brutality in Birmingham?

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

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

5. What does Rosemary Lawlor say was the action that started the snowball effect that broke the curfew in Lower Falls?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Stella get wrong about teaching in the video Gladwell refers to, from the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia?

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

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

4. Why does Gladwell say the Nazis did not come to Le Chambon and make an example of the town?

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

6. How dos Gladwell distinguish between geniuses and prodigies?

7. Why does Gladwell say that it took the British so long to understand that they were applying too much force in northern Ireland?

8. What does Gladwell say were the circumstances that led to Freireich’s father death?

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

10. What does Gladwell credit Bill Hudson’s photo of Walter Gadsden being attacked by the police dog in Birmingham with having done?

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