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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Derksen say the consequences of ongoing anger would have been?
(a) Belittling herself.
(b) Losing her soul.
(c) Losing her husband and children.
(d) Turning away from God’s grace.

2. How many people does Gladwell say General Freeland brought in, to subdue a population of 8,000 in Lower Falls?
(a) 500.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 1,400.
(d) 800.

3. How does Gladwell characterize André Trocmé?
(a) A blessing of a man.
(b) A sinner turned saint.
(c) A violent man conquered by God.
(d) A wolf in sheep’s clothing.

4. What innovation did Freireich make in terms of treating infections in Leukemia patients?
(a) To treat infections locally instead of holistically.
(b) To match the antibiotic to the infection.
(c) To give a combination of antibiotics at the same time.
(d) To skip antibiotics for more chemotherapy.

5. Where did Gouré typically interview the Viet Cong?
(a) In Saigon.
(b) In military prisons.
(c) In their villages.
(d) In the countryside.

6. What does Gladwell say about people who have “emerged from some kind of trauma” (161)?
(a) Society needs to regulate them.
(b) Society needs to cure them.
(c) Society needs to replicate them.
(d) Society needs them.

7. What does Gladwell say was the average age of the criminals locked up for their third strikes?
(a) 34.
(b) 24.
(c) 43.
(d) 18.

8. How does Gladwell characterize the effect of Bill Hudson’s famous photo of the dog attacking the peaceful protestor?
(a) He says that it turned the tide of the civil rights movement.
(b) He says that it was a drop in the bucket of changing Americans’ minds about race and police brutality.
(c) He says that it was responsible for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
(d) He says that it was not discovered until years later.

9. What percentage of people does Gladwell say voted for the Three Strikes Law in the state-wide referendum?
(a) 88%.
(b) 53%.
(c) 72%.
(d) 61%.

10. When did France fall to Germany in World War 2?
(a) December, 1941.
(b) June 1940.
(c) September, 1939.
(d) April, 1940.

11. How does Gladwell characterize Leon Gouré?
(a) A hard-nosed businessman.
(b) A swashbuckling military man.
(c) A bookish expert.
(d) A confident ladies man.

12. How did police find the man who killed Derksen’s daughter?
(a) The man turned himself in.
(b) An inmate led them to him.
(c) DNA evidence.
(d) A witness came forward.

13. How does Gladwell characterize the procedures Freireich was performing on his patients?
(a) Industry.
(b) Science.
(c) Torture.
(d) Research.

14. When does Gladwell say Dr. Freireich determined he wanted to be a doctor?
(a) When he met a friend whose father was a doctor.
(b) When he had tonsillitis as a kid.
(c) When his mother married a doctor.
(d) When he married a woman who was a doctor.

15. How does Gladwell say André Trocmé circumvented the Nazi requirement to salute the Nazi flag at the school?
(a) They refused to fly the flag.
(b) They saluted the French flag instead.
(c) They refused to salute.
(d) They did not have a flagpole.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role does Gladwell say Gouré liked to play in Paris?

2. How does Gladwell characterize Brer Rabbit in African-American culture?

3. What message did Kellen bring to the U.S. government about the Viet Cong?

4. When does Gladwell say “things got worse” in Northern Ireland (199)?

5. How does Gladwell characterize the mistake the British made in Northern Ireland?

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