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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter seven: Rosemary Lawlor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gladwell characterize the British army in their role in northern Ireland?
(a) Dominating aggressors.
(b) Impartial referees.
(c) Powerless bystanders.
(d) Occupying army.

2. What does Rosemary Lawlor say was the action that started the snowball effect that broke the curfew in Lower Falls?
(a) Women and children offering themselves to British soldiers’ batons.
(b) Women holding a prayer meeting at a road block.
(c) Women going in pushing prams with provisions.
(d) Women throwing stones and Molotov cocktails.

3. How old was Gladwell’s powerful Hollywood friend, when he started a snow-shoveling business with other students?
(a) 16.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 18.

4. What kind of image does Gladwell say General Freeland wanted to convey to the northern Irish?
(a) Relentlessness.
(b) Patience.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Toughness.

5. Which part of the brain do dyslexics use more of, during reading, than “normal” readers (100)?
(a) Right hemisphere.
(b) Left hemisphere.
(c) Frontal cortex.
(d) Cerebral cortex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the trait that allowed IKEA CEO Kamprad to pull off moving his production facilities to Poland?

2. Where is Shepaug Valley Middle School?

3. How much does Gladwell say per-pupil spending increased in the U.S. from 1996 to 2004?

4. Why dose Gary Cohn say he left school?

5. What does Gladwell say the average class size used to be at Shepaug Valley Middle School?

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