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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book did Malcolm Gladwell publish in 2005?
(a) The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference.
(b) What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures.
(c) Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.
(d) Outliers: The Story of Success.

2. 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?
(a) Connectors.
(b) Mavens.
(c) Salesmen.
(d) Mercenaries.

3. What professor from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health discusses the needle exchange program in Baltimore in Chapter 6?
(a) Tom Junge.
(b) Tom Valente.
(c) Todd Kessler.
(d) Chad Farmer.

4. Unlike Sesame Street, which tested a third of its episodes, the Blue's Clues research team field tested every episode how many times?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

5. 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 Kevin Bacon.”
(b) “Six Degrees of Separation.”
(c) “Ten Degrees of Kevin Bacon.”
(d) “Seven Degrees of Separation.”

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Airwalk’s sales begin to falter, according to the author in Chapter 6?

2. Gladwell claims that nicotine acts as what in Chapter 7?

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

4. When was the new hybrid corn seed introduced to Green County, Iowa, according to the author in Chapter 6?

5. What is a term used to describe the use of drugs or other self-soothing forms of behavior to treat untreated and often undiagnosed mental distress?

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