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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Gladwell’s rough quiz to test the number of people a person may know, few people score over what number?
(a) 50.
(b) 30.
(c) 20.
(d) 100.

2. Gladwell mentions two methods to reduce teen smoking in Chapter 7. The first is to prevent whom from smoking?
(a) The laggards.
(b) The parents.
(c) The introverts.
(d) The extroverts.

3. When was the new hybrid corn seed introduced to Green County, Iowa, according to the author in Chapter 6?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1911.

4. What is the name of Methodism’s founder?
(a) John Wesley.
(b) George Whitfield.
(c) John Potterat.
(d) Howard Friedman.

5. Philip Zimbardo ended his prison experiment after how many days?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

1. Unlike Sesame Street, which tested a third of its episodes, the Blue's Clues research team field tested every episode how many times?

2. Teenage girls in Los Angeles were noticed dressing like Mexican gangsters in what was referred to as what look?

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

4. According to the author in Chapter 7, even as the amount of advertising against smoking increases, what also increases?

5. What refers to the science of the mind or of mental states and processes?

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