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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 kind of test is the complex figure test discussed in Chapter 9: "KSM"?
(a) Drawing.
(b) Driving.
(c) IQ.
(d) Sight.

2. How many separate times was Knox put on trial for the murder of her roommate Meredith?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 1.

3. Which person is described as being immune to waterboarding?
(a) Jensen.
(b) KSM.
(c) Reagan.
(d) Mitchell.

4. Over what resource are several groups battling, according to Gladwell in Chapter 9: "KSM"?
(a) Secrets.
(b) Survival.
(c) Death.
(d) Truth.

5. For how many weeks did KSM endure interrogation before he began to talk?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Spanish social scientists visited the Trobriand Islands to study its people?

2. For how many years had Mitchell been studying interrogation techniques before he questioned KSM?

3. Out of every five females, how many say that they have been the victims of sexual assault?

4. In what type of environment do judges rely on nonverbal cues to make their decisions?

5. What does the K in KSM stand for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the acronym SERE stand for?

2. How long did it take for interrogators to get KSM to talk and why?

3. Who or what is KSM?

4. Who is Meredith Kercher?

5. Which season and episode of Friends is discussed at length within Chapter 6: "The Friends Fallacy"?

6. For what reason was Amanda Knox able to be tried in two different criminal trials for the same alleged crime?

7. What is the symbolism of Amanda Knox's utterance "Ta-dah," (177) according to Gladwell?

8. For what purpose was James Mitchell called upon by the U.S. government in March of 2003?

9. Which group took the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure test and experienced surprising results?

10. What word came to James Mitchell's mind the first time he met KSM?

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