Quiz: Capstone
21 items: 12 multiple choice · 5 true/false · 3 short answer · 1 applied scenario with rubric.
This quiz draws on the whole book. Answers in <details>. Attempt each before opening.
Part 1 — Multiple Choice (12)
Q1. A plan is tested by:
(a) Reading it carefully (b) Having a colleague review it (c) Removing something and seeing what fails (d) Running the event
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**(c).** **A read-through finds contradictions; it cannot find fragility**, because everything in a plan looks fine when nothing has gone wrong.Q2. In the six-step injection method, the step that is the actual test:
(a) Picking the thing to remove (b) Tracing forward without solving (c) Finding the point of no return (d) Noting whether the book answered it, or you did
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**(d).** **If the answer came from your head, the book failed** — and a version of the event run by anybody else would have failed with it.Q3. Injection 1 — the florist's van at 14:20 — found:
(a) That the florist was unreliable (b) A gap, and then a collision: no named collector, and the obvious candidate was already on the gate (c) That the degradation ladder was wrong (d) Nothing
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**(b).** **A good injection finds a gap and then finds that the obvious fix collides with something else** — which a review would never surface. **Danny was on the gate at 15:40, so the collection line names Tomás.**Q4. Injection 4 — Elena not answering — found:
(a) That the assignment sheet was wrong (b) That none of her three tasks had a backup, despite four previous audits (c) That she was over-assigned (d) A legal problem with the signing
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**(b).** **Chapter 22 noticed the over-assignment, Chapter 23 demonstrated it with a clock, Chapter 24 fixed it publicly — and nobody ever gave any of her tasks a second name.** **Rosa's cue is a touch on the arm from a person who is not there.**Q5. The fix for injection 4 costs:
(a) A restructure of the assignment sheet (b) A second coordinator (c) Eleven words at the rehearsal (d) Nothing can fix it
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**(c).** *"Beatriz, if Elena's not there, you touch Rosa's arm at 16:36."* **It closes the single most fragile point in a plan that had already been audited four times.**Q6. A design decision is defensible when it is stated as:
(a) A matter of taste (b) The couple's preference (c) A constraint, a principle, or a consequence (d) Consistent with the mood board
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**(c).** **And the fourth form — *the couple wanted it and it does no harm* — is honest, is not a defence, and should be recorded as such**, because a plan in which every decision has a constraint has probably had the couple designed out of it.Q7. In the absence test, you should:
(a) Walk them through the book (b) Give them the book and nothing else, and answer nothing (c) Be available for questions (d) Choose somebody who knows the event
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**(b).** **Every question they have to ask you is a gap** — and every explanation you give is a gap you have just concealed from yourself. **The person is doing you a favour that only works in silence.**Q8. Ximena's eleven questions were:
(a) Criticisms of the plan (b) Things the planner knew and had not written down (c) Evidence the plan was incomplete in its design (d) Mostly about the budget
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**(b).** **Not one is a criticism of the plan.** Who is Beatriz · which floor plan is current · what is the noise curfew and who enforces it · where is the money · **am I allowed to move the ceremony** · what is the couple's phone number.Q9. The output of a simulated day is:
(a) A revised run sheet (b) Confidence (c) The marks — every answer that came from memory (d) A list of injections
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**(c).** **A simulated day with no marks was not run honestly**, and there will be more of them than you expect.Q10. The post-event report opens with:
(a) The reconciliation (b) What went wrong (c) The finding log (d) What went well
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**(b).** **Chapter 30's going-first, and it sets the credibility of everything after** — which Chapter 31's Priya, Chapter 32's Fairhaven, and Chapter 35's Verdance all demonstrated at organisational scale.Q11. The ceremony-hour sheet took:
(a) Two hours (b) Eleven minutes (c) A day (d) It was never built
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**(b)** — **one page, six blocks, and it is the artefact this book was missing for twenty-eight chapters.** Every item on it is a finding from Chapters 20, 27, 28, or 29 that previously lived nowhere.Q12. In the Reyes–Whitfield report, how many of the five injections actually happened on the day?
(a) All five (b) Three (c) One (d) None
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**(d).** **Which is the normal outcome and is why injections must be run at a desk** — the day does not supply them reliably, **and a planner who waits for real failures to test their plan will test it about twice a decade, expensively.**Part 2 — True or False (5)
Q13. A thorough read-through of a production book is an adequate test of it.
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**False.** **It finds contradictions and cannot find fragility.** Chapter 28 established the deeper limit: **an audit cannot find a consistent error**, which is how "the barn seats 89" survived three of them.Q14. "The generator upgrade was right because nothing went wrong" is a valid defence.
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**False.** **Nothing going wrong is compatible with both a right and a wrong decision** — Chapter 28's Case Study 28.1 and Chapter 33's FX note both establish it. **The defence must be from the information available at the time.**Q15. If an injection finds nothing, the plan is robust at that point.
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**Usually false.** **It usually means the injection was too small or too late.** Move it earlier — **a vendor failing at −4 hours is survivable; the same vendor failing on the day the venue changed its access time is the injection you were looking for.**Q16. The absence test can be run on yourself if you are rigorous.
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**False, and it is the only part of the chapter that cannot be self-administered.** **You cannot find what you do not know is missing** — which is also why §40.1's twelfth audit question must be asked by somebody else.Q17. A capstone built for practice, without a real client, is a waste of time.
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**False, provided the constraints are real.** **Do not invent the venue and do not invent vendor prices** — ring three real caterers. **The invented part should be the couple; everything else should be true**, because every hard problem in this book comes from a constraint.Part 3 — Short Answer (3)
Q18. Give the injection method in full and explain why step 6 is the test.
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**Pick one thing · remove it at a specific time (*"the caterer's van breaks down at 14:20,"* not "the caterer fails") · trace forward hour by hour without solving · find where it becomes irreversible · then solve, and record the solution as a change to the book · and note whether the book answered it or you did.** **Step six is the test because the whole exercise is about the document, not the planner.** **A gap that you filled from memory is invisible in every other form of review**, and it is exactly the gap that costs somebody the event when you are not there.Q19. State what each of the five injections tests, and what injections 2, 3, and 4 found.
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**1: a category-B vendor** — substitutability, the degradation ladder, the second-order failure. **2: a condition at the deadline** — the rain plan's five parts, the decider, the crew. **3: a category-D vendor** — the hardest test, because the event does not work without them. **4: a person** — the assignment sheet and whether anybody else can pick it up. **5: you** — the absence test. **Injection 2 found no Saturday contact for the venue**, and surfaced an undocumented margin: **the deadline is 1:25, the point of no return 13:45.** **Injection 3 found a phone number and no script**, fixed with four sentences written in August. **Injection 4 found no second name against any of Elena's three tasks** — closed by eleven words at the rehearsal.Q20. Describe the absence test and what it found.
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**Find somebody competent who was not involved · give them the production book and nothing else · ask them six questions · write down every question they have to ask you · fix the gaps.** **The six: what happens at 16:25 · who do I ring if the caterer does not arrive · where does everybody go if it rains · who can spend money and how much · somebody has collapsed, what do you do in order · and what would you not have known?** **It found eleven gaps in a plan built across thirty-nine chapters** — **and not one of them is a criticism of the plan.** **Every one is something the planner knew and had not written down.**Part 4 — Applied Scenario (1)
Q21. You have assembled a production book for a 180-guest wedding at a working farm. Marquee, hired generator, one access track, a river 40 m from the ceremony site, two families, 26 guests travelling internationally, a band with a 400 kg rigged element, and a 22:00 amplified-music curfew enforced by the local authority.
Produce: the five injections, written specifically · the one you expect to find the most · the three most fragile points in the plan as described · and the six absence-test questions you would most fear being asked.