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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 Gladwell say the “remote misses” felt after surviving a bombing (132)?
(a) Religious.
(b) Grateful.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Invincible.

2. How much does Gladwell say the odds increase, that a child of an incarcerated parent will have a psychiatric disorder?
(a) 150%.
(b) 350%.
(c) 250%.
(d) 400%.

3. How does Rosemary Lawlor explain why she was hooked on fighting the British?
(a) She said an injustice was thrust on her and she had to do something.
(b) She said the pay was good, for insurgent families.
(c) She said that the northern Irish resistance fighters treated her well.
(d) She said that she had already lost everything, so she might as well fight.

4. What message did Kellen bring to the U.S. government about the Viet Cong?
(a) That they were receiving more support than U.S. war planners knew about.
(b) That they were running out of material support.
(c) That they would never give up.
(d) That they were planning to bring the Russians into the war.

5. What does Derksen say the consequences of ongoing anger would have been?
(a) Losing her husband and children.
(b) Belittling herself.
(c) Losing her soul.
(d) Turning away from God’s grace.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did France fall to Germany in World War 2?

3. 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?

4. How does Gladwell say André Trocmé circumvented the requirement that his school ring its bell to commemorate the anniversary of the Vichy regime?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gladwell say would have happened had the Nazis killed André Trocmé?

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

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

4. How does Turtle win the race with Deer, in the Brer Rabbit story Gladwell relates?

5. What was Mike Reynolds' reaction when the disadvantages of the Three Strikes law became apparent?

6. How dos Gladwell distinguish between geniuses and prodigies?

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

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

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

10. What is the lesson Gladwell derives from the video of the third-grade classroom from the Curry School of Education?

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