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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. How does Gladwell say Martin Luther King Jr. prepared his team for their trip to Birmingham?
2. Who does Gladwell say took in the Jews in France?
3. How many people does Gladwell say lost their homes in London during the Blitz?
4. Why did Wyatt Walker get criticism for setting up the protest that resulted in Bill Hudson’s photo?
5. What childhood trauma did Dr. Freireich’s wife Haroldine share with him?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were the effects of the Three Strikes law that turned public opinion against it, and led to its being “radically scaled back” (248)?
2. How does Gladwell explain the trait that allowed Londoners to go about their business during the Blitz?
3. Why does Gladwell say the Nazis did not come to Le Chambon and make an example of the town?
4. What does Gladwell say were the circumstances that led to Freireich’s father death?
5. What was the effect of the Three Strikes law in California?
6. What does Gladwell credit Bill Hudson’s photo of Walter Gadsden being attacked by the police dog in Birmingham with having done?
7. How does Gladwell say André Trocmé subverted the laws in Vichy France?
8. What is Brer Rabbit’s secret power, According to Gladwell?
9. What was Mike Reynolds' reaction when the disadvantages of the Three Strikes law became apparent?
10. What does Gladwell say allowed Wilma Derksen to forgive her daughter’s murderer?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Gladwell urges us to look at life—our own lives—through the lens of the parables and their morals, in David and Goliath. How do you see the themes he traces, about the limits of power, or the advantages of disadvantages, in your own life? Does your own life prove or disprove Gladwell’s theories?
Essay Topic 2
What are Gladwell’s intellectual blind spots? What are the kinds of behavior or complexity he tends not to see?
Essay Topic 3
What has Gladwell’s book taught you about fighting giants in your own life? What giants are you and your people up against? What weaknesses does Gladwell’s book help you identify? What strengths of your own does Gladwell encourage you to use?
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