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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the science of the mind or of mental states and processes?
(a) Anthropology.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Epidemiology.
(d) Sociology.

2. In Chapter 7, the author states that researchers discovered that news coverage of suicide directly correlated with what?
(a) A spike in clinics.
(b) A spike in suicides.
(c) A decline in suicides.
(d) A rise in homicides.

3. What occurs when new cases of a certain disease, in a given human population and during a given period, substantially exceed what is expected based on recent experience?
(a) Cataclysm.
(b) Transmutation.
(c) Epidemic.
(d) Rupture.

4. In 1993, Airwalk was a $16 million company. In 1995 it had sales of how much?
(a) $4 billion.
(b) $150 million.
(c) $200 million.
(d) $120 million.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author states in Chapter 1 that what year span saw the number of children in Baltimore born with syphilis spike considerably?

3. What previous book had the author of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood published, according to the author in Chapter 5?

4. When did Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood first hit the New York Times bestseller lists?

5. What does HIV stand for?

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