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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. Mitchell first spoke to KSM what year?

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

3. How old was Brock Turner when he committed sexual assault?

4. What substance was used to continually keep the containers full as the trainees conducted their training?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. To which element does Gladwell point when he names the number one contributor to the problem of sexual assault?

2. Who or what is KSM?

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

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

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

6. Who is Emily Doe?

7. What conclusion did James Mitchell and Bruce Jensen reach regarding the three most effective interrogation techniques?

8. Where are the Trobriand Islands?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Gladwell’s use of the first and second person point of view serve the purposes of the text? Discuss how Gladwell’s choice of point of view helps to advance the treatment of at least three particular themes within the text.

Essay Topic 2

Choose an object from Talking to Strangers, such as Montezuma's 1519 speech, the turn signal, or some other symbolic object and discuss its overall meaning and its connection to themes within the text.

Essay Topic 3

What is Gladwell's message regarding a particular shift in worldview that needs to occur for a particular group of people and why?

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