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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. Philip Zimbardo ended his prison experiment after how many days?
2. What refers to the science or study of the origin, development, organization and functioning of human society?
3. According to the author in Chapter 5, the Methodist movement became epidemic in England and North America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, tipping from 20,000 to how many followers in the U.S. in the 1780s?
4. On what date was Bernie Goetz mugged on the subway?
5. When was Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood published?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author describe the importance of groups in Chapter 5?
2. How does the author describe New York City crime when Bernie Goetz’s case took place?
3. How did crime in New York change in the decade after the Bernie Goetz case? Why do most people believe this change happened?
4. How does the author describe the work of Robin Dunbar in Chapter 5?
5. What key figures in trends does the author describe in Chapter 6?
6. How does the author describe the obstacle in anti-smoking campaigns with teens?
7. What example does the author give from The Psychology of Rumor in Chapter 6?
8. What are the roles of connectors, mavens and salesmen, according to the author in Chapter 6?
9. How does the author describe the publication of Rebecca Wells's novel Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood in Chapter 5?
10. What theory does Gladwell introduce to explain the change in New York City crime in Chapter 4?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the role of mavens in epidemics, be them diseases or trends. How do mavens serve to keep the market honest? How do mavens relate to connectors and salesmen? Who does the author cite as a prototypical maven who is "almost pathologically helpful"? Why does he say this?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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