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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was the Airwalk shoes company based?
(a) San Diego, California.
(b) New York, New York.
(c) San Francisco, California.
(d) Los Angeles, California.

2. When did Philip Zimbardo conduct his prison study?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1976.

3. When was Paul Revere born?
(a) 1689.
(b) 1734.
(c) 1756.
(d) 1719.

4. How many young men closed in on Bernie Goetz in an attempt to mug him on the subway?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

5. When was an analysis of the spread of hybrid seed corn in Green County, Iowa, conducted, according to the author in Chapter 6?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1930s.
(c) The 1960s.
(d) The 1950s.

Short Answer Questions

1. The young men who attempted to mug Bernie Goetz were from where?

2. Paul Revere is someone the author considers to be what?

3. Where did Bernie Goetz and his sister attend boarding school for high school?

4. In Chapter 2, Gladwell explains the Law of the Few, which he splits further into three classes of people. Which is the first of these?

5. In Chapter 6, Gladwell tells the story of a Chinese professor working for an American university who asked about a mountain where?

(see the answer key)

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