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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. The most aggressive waterboarding protocol consists of a continuous pour of how many seconds?

2. The sexual assault committed by Brock Turner occurred on the campus of which university?

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

4. What type of interrogation was Mitchell brought in to perform on KSM?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What aspect of the interrogation situation appears to cause the most fear, according to James Mitchell?

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

4. Where are the Trobriand Islands?

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

6. Who is Emily Doe?

7. For how many years had James Mitchell been studying interrogation techniques by the time he questioned KSM?

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Gladwell employ the use or rejection of fallacy within Talking to Strangers and how does the inclusion of fallacy help Gladwell to prove particular points made within the text?

Essay Topic 2

How is the theme of hypocrisy treated within Gladwell’s text and with which of the text’s messages does the theme closely connect?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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