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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Gladwell’s rough quiz to test the number of people a person may know, a typical score comes in around what number?
(a) 30.
(b) 70.
(c) 90.
(d) 50.

2. What is Roger Horchow’s profession?
(a) Flight attendant.
(b) Schoolteacher.
(c) Catalog entrepreneur.
(d) Aerobics instructor.

3. What leading epidemiologist theorizes that the syphilis epidemic in Baltimore was caused by the diminishing of public housing?
(a) John Potterat.
(b) John Zenilman.
(c) John Bartlett.
(d) Darnell McGee.

4. What is a trivia game that rests on the assumption that any individual involved in the Hollywood, California film industry can be linked through his or her film roles to actor Kevin Bacon?
(a) “Six Degrees of Separation.”
(b) “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.”
(c) “Seven Degrees of Separation.”
(d) “Ten Degrees of Kevin Bacon.”

5. What researcher from Syracuse University showed that of the three major news outlets, Peter Jennings showed a bias in the presidential elections of the 1980s?
(a) Brian Mullen.
(b) Mark Alpert.
(c) John Potterat.
(d) Tom Gau.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Lois Weisberg from?

2. Roger Horchow scored well over what number on Gladwell's connector test in Chapter 2?

3. What refers to a social psychological phenomenon where individuals do not offer any means of help in an emergency situation to the victim when other people are present?

4. Gaeton Dugas held what profession?

5. On what date does the author describe a young boy overhearing news of the British invasion in Chapter 2?

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