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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the British army doing in Lower Falls, Belfast, while they instituted the curfew?
2. How does Gladwell say “Stella” has lost her class’ attention in the video of her classroom from the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia?
3. How does Gladwell characterize André Trocmé?
4. How many Londoners said they had not gotten any sleep the previous night, in a poll during the Blitz?
5. How does Gladwell say André Trocmé circumvented the requirement that his school ring its bell to commemorate the anniversary of the Vichy regime?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Gladwell explain the trait that allowed Londoners to go about their business during the Blitz?
2. Where had Kellen gotten his background for the RAND job to consult on the Vietnam war?
3. How does Gladwell explain Freireich’s wife’s bond to him?
4. What is Brer Rabbit’s secret power, According to Gladwell?
5. What does Stella get wrong about teaching in the video Gladwell refers to, from the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia?
6. What does Gladwell credit Bill Hudson’s photo of Walter Gadsden being attacked by the police dog in Birmingham with having done?
7. What does Gladwell say would have happened had the Nazis killed André Trocmé?
8. How dos Gladwell distinguish between geniuses and prodigies?
9. Why does Gladwell say the Nazis did not come to Le Chambon and make an example of the town?
10. What is the lesson Gladwell derives from the video of the third-grade classroom from the Curry School of Education?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In many cases, you have to step back to a certain distance to share the values Gladwell espouses, overlooking, for instance, the sufferings of children with cancer, in order to see the value of Freireich’s cure, or to say that “You could kill André Trocmé” but “another André Trocmé would rise in his place” (274). How would you characterize the distance one has to have from things in order to see what Gladwell sees. Is it the distance of a scientist? An anthropologist? A statistician? A historian? What are the advantages and disadvantages of that intellectual/emotional distance?
Essay Topic 2
Evaluate the ending of David and Goliath. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?
Essay Topic 3
Write an evaluative review of David and Goliath. What is this book’s place in our culture? Who will find this book most useful? What are its uses? What are its limitations?
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