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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who became director the of the New York City Subway system at the height of the crime problems, according to the author in Chapter 4?
2. Philip Zimbardo is a social scientist at what university?
3. Teenage girls in Los Angeles were noticed dressing like Mexican gangsters in what was referred to as what look?
4. Where did Bernie Goetz earn a bachelor’s degree?
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?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author describe the incident that made Bernie Goetz famous?
2. What have researchers discovered regarding news coverage on suicide?
3. How does the author describe the importance of groups in Chapter 5?
4. How does the author describe the obstacle in anti-smoking campaigns with teens?
5. According to the author, a teenager who begins smoking will not develop an addiction threshold for up to three years. Given this, how does Gladwell propose prevention of regular smokers?
6. What are the roles of connectors, mavens and salesmen, according to the author in Chapter 6?
7. What key figures in trends does the author describe in Chapter 6?
8. What was “fare beating” and why was it not prosecuted before the New York City Subway system got a new director?
9. What, according to the author, gives teens “psychological permission” to smoke?
10. Who did Airwalk employ as a connector, according to the author in Chapter 6? Why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the needle exchange program instituted in Baltimore, Maryland. What did researchers expect the outcome of the program to be? How were they wrong? Who are the innovators in this scenario?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon”. Who claims to have first originated the game? What are the rules entailed? What statistics surround the game? Why does Kevin Bacon work for this game better than some other actors? How does this game illustrate the power of connectors?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss the murder of Kitty Genovese and the bystander effect. Who coined the terms “bystander effect” and "Genovese syndrome"? What are more recent examples of this phenomenon? If Genovese had been in a different environment, would it have affected her murder? How does the Power of Context apply to other situations similar to the Kitty Genovese murder?
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