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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 does the the first E stand for in the acronym SERE?

2. What number episode within its season is the episode Gladwell discusses in Chapter 6: "The Friends Fallacy"?

3. Gladwell asserts that it is impossible to feel what emotion while watching an episode of Friends?

4. What does the S stand for in the acronym SERE?

5. What does the S in KSM stand for?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What punishment did Brock Turner receive for his crimes?

3. Who or what is KSM?

4. Over what element does Gladwell say interrogators and terrorists continually battle?

5. In what location did James Mitchell and Bruce Jensen first meet and why?

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

7. For what length of time was Amanda Knox imprisoned and why is the answer so shocking?

8. For what reason did two social scientists visit the Trobriand Islands in 2013?

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

10. Where are the Trobriand Islands?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What ultimate message is Gladwell sending about the nature and value of compassion?

Essay Topic 2

In what way does Gladwell go about breaking the text into parts and how do these structural elements help to advance the text’s arguments?

Essay Topic 3

What message is Gladwell sending regarding the source of human flaws and unhappiness?

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