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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Philip Zimbardo instructed the mock guards in his prison study to do what?
(a) Conduct random drug tests.
(b) Interrogate the prisoners.
(c) Water-board the prisoners.
(d) Maintain order at any cost.

2. Sesame Street premiered on what television station?
(a) NPR.
(b) CBS.
(c) NET.
(d) BBC.

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

4. Darnell McGee admitted sexual relations with how many people after he knew he carried HIV?
(a) 2,500.
(b) 252.
(c) 398.
(d) 103.

5. Where did Bernie Goetz earn a bachelor’s degree?
(a) California State University.
(b) New York University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) The University of Texas.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, Gladwell explains the Law of the Few, which he splits further into three classes of people. Which is the first of these?

2. In Gladwell’s rough quiz to test the number of people a person may know, few people score over what number?

3. On what date does the author describe a young boy overhearing news of the British invasion in Chapter 2?

4. According to one study, frequent viewers of Peter Jennings were more likely to vote for whom in the 1980s?

5. What British anthropologist developed a ratio between the size of an animal's neocortex and the size of the animal's social group?

(see the answer key)

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