View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The survivor of sexual assault victimized by Brock Turner was in what level of school at the time of the attack?
(a) She was in graduate school.
(b) She was in law school.
(c) She was in undergraduate school.
(d) She had already graduated.

2. For how many years was Amanda Knox imprisoned before she was released?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

3. Gladwell asserts that it is impossible to feel what emotion while watching an episode of Friends?
(a) Longing.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Glee.

4. What percentage of the survey respondents equated gaze aversion with dissembling behavior?
(a) 98.
(b) 58.
(c) 34.
(d) 87.

5. In what country was Knox living and going to school at the time when her roommate Meredith was murdered?
(a) France.
(b) South Korea.
(c) The United States.
(d) Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time when they met, Jensen and Mitchell both worked for which branch of the U.S. military?

2. For how many weeks did KSM endure interrogation before he began to talk?

3. In what country was Daniel Pearl being held at the time of his beheading?

4. During what month of the year did Mitchell first speak to KSM in person?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the acronym SERE stand for?

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

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

4. Who is Emily Doe?

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

6. Describe the survey of attitudes about deception discussed in Chapter 7: "A (Short) Explanation of the Amanda Knox Case."

7. What statistic does Gladwell provide in Chapter 8: "The Fraternity Party" to support his claim that sexual assault is a problem in the modern age?

8. Who is Meredith Kercher?

9. What is the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure test and what does it measure?

10. Where are the Trobriand Islands?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 787 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample