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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. In what year did Neville Chamberlain first travel to Germany?

2. In what year did Aspillaga officially defect from Cuba?

3. What was Jerry Sandusky's final position with the state university football team for whom he worked for decades?

4. Nassar's job was to provide care for athletes participating in which sport?

5. Which element of the first meeting between Chamberlain and Hitler had the most profound effect on Chamberlain?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a yurodiry?

2. What was Nahuatl?

3. Who is Bernie Madoff?

4. In what year was the first complaint made against Jerry Sandusky and when was he arrested?

5. Who was Fidel Castro?

6. How many times in total did Neville Chamberlain meet with Hitler and why is this fact significant?

7. In what way does Gladwell portray miscommunication as dangerous in Chapter 2: "Getting to Know der Fuhrer"?

8. To what location was General Aspillaga posted and how did it change his outlook?

9. Who is Michael McQueary, as described in Chapter 5: "The Boy in the Shower"?

10. What was Montezuma II's ultimate fate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the theme of injustice portrayed within Talking to Strangers? Examine Gladwell's treatment of and messages regarding injustice throughout the work.

Essay Topic 2

In what way does Gladwell go about breaking the text into parts and how do these structural elements help to advance the text’s arguments?

Essay Topic 3

What is Gladwell's message regarding a particular shift in worldview that needs to occur for a particular group of people and why?

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