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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. How many deaths does Gladwell say British war planners expected in London in the first week of the German Blitz?
(a) 750,000.
(b) 250,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 1 million.

2. When does Gladwell say Dr. Freireich determined he wanted to be a doctor?
(a) When his mother married a doctor.
(b) When he married a woman who was a doctor.
(c) When he had tonsillitis as a kid.
(d) When he met a friend whose father was a doctor.

3. When did France fall to Germany in World War 2?
(a) June 1940.
(b) April, 1940.
(c) December, 1941.
(d) September, 1939.

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

5. 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?
(a) Because the country profits from war in other ways.
(b) Because war planners are invested in the war.
(c) Because each generation has to learn it for themselves.
(d) Because there is a stigma about using received information.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does Gladwell say the odds increase, that a child of an incarcerated parent will have a psychiatric disorder?

2. What trait does Gladwell say made Brer Rabbit formidable?

3. What does Gladwell say was necessary for Wyatt Walker’s “Project C—” to work?

4. What childhood trauma did Dr. Freireich’s wife Haroldine share with him?

5. Why did Wyatt Walker get criticism for setting up the protest that resulted in Bill Hudson’s photo?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gladwell explain Freireich’s wife’s bond to him?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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