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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The stickiness of cigarettes is innate in what, according to the author?
(a) Parental disapproval.
(b) The cigarette itself.
(c) Media disapproval.
(d) Societal disapproval.

2. What refers to a communal branch of Anabaptists who, like the Amish and Mennonites, trace their roots to the Radical Reformation of the sixteenth century?
(a) Calvinists.
(b) Occidentalists.
(c) Hutterites.
(d) Muslims.

3. What refers to the act, state or habit of being predominantly concerned with and obtaining gratification from what is outside the self?
(a) Narcissism.
(b) Introversion.
(c) Cataclysm.
(d) Extroversion.

4. Bernie Goetz’s parents were immigrants from where?
(a) Italy.
(b) Germany.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) France.

5. What advertising agency did the Airwalk company hire to rethink their marketing campaign in the 1990s?
(a) Athena.
(b) Interprize.
(c) Lambesis.
(d) Maven.

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

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

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

9. What refers to the displeasing feeling of fear and concern?
(a) Rage.
(b) Depression.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Schizophrenia.

10. Gladwell visited what specialized clothing and technology company that splits into separate divisions and buildings when any arm of the company grows beyond 150?
(a) Leiderman and Associates.
(b) Nike.
(c) Gore Associates.
(d) Adidas.

11. Philip Zimbardo is president of what project at the university where he works?
(a) The Creative Culture Project.
(b) The Jung Project.
(c) The Feinberg Project.
(d) The Heroic Imagination Project.

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

13. In Chapter 6, Gladwell tells the story of a Chinese professor working for an American university who asked about a mountain where?
(a) Maine.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) New York.
(d) Argentina.

14. Chapter 7 begins with the story of a Micronesian boy named what who committed suicide after his father rebuked him for forgetting to bring home a knife for the family business?
(a) Nuna.
(b) Arima.
(c) Sima.
(d) Anya.

15. In one study described in Chapter 4, a group of seminary students prepared to give a lecture on what parable?
(a) The good Samaritan.
(b) Cain and Abel.
(c) Abraham and Peter.
(d) The parting of the Red Sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first bestseller list on which Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood appeared was what?

2. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood was adapted to film in what year?

3. Mark Alpert is a professor at what university?

4. Throughout history, armies organized in groups of less than what number, according to the author in Chapter 5?

5. Who is the author of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood?

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