The Undoing Project Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Undoing Project Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two areas did aptitude tests reveal that Kahneman was equally suited to excel in?
(a) Physical Sports and Humanities.
(b) Marksmanship and Humanities.
(c) Mathematics and Medicine.
(d) Humanities and Science.

2. Which team does Daryl Morey work for?
(a) The Boston Celtics.
(b) The L.A. Lakers.
(c) The Houston Rockets.
(d) The Miami Heat.

3. Who did Amos Tversky stand beside in the line for the entrance tests to be admitted to Hebrew University's psychology program?
(a) Marshall Minkestein.
(b) Richard Sheinbaum.
(c) Amnon Rapoport.
(d) Danny Kahneman.

4. Who did Amos Tversky dedicate his PhD dissertation to?
(a) His wife, Barbara.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) Danny Kahneman.

5. Where did the Kahnemans move after leaving Europe in the 1940s?
(a) Palestine.
(b) America.
(c) Russia.
(d) China.

6. What could often be heard from behind the closed door of the room Tversky and Kahneman worked in?
(a) Crying.
(b) Laughter.
(c) Angry shouting.
(d) Silence.

7. What did Tversky think he originally might want to become?
(a) A poet or literary critic.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A doctor.
(d) An accountant.

8. Which Israeli general spoke to Tversky's high school class during Tversky's senior year?
(a) Shimon Perez.
(b) Moshe Dayan.
(c) Benjamin Netanyahu.
(d) Yuri Gurt.

9. Morey said that knowledge is literally which of the following?
(a) Prediction.
(b) Danger.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Power.

10. What did the Kahnemans do to pass as Christians while in hiding?
(a) Wore crosses as jewelry.
(b) Carried rosaries.
(c) Had crosses in their house.
(d) Went to church on Sundays.

11. Why was Kahneman's father released from the Nazi prison camp after six weeks?
(a) His wife lobbied for his safe return.
(b) He had connections in the French government.
(c) His child begged for his release.
(d) His employer, Eugene Schueller, asked for his release.

12. Which book had a big influence on Daryl Morey when he was a teenager?
(a) The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract.
(b) The Marshall Plan.
(c) Moneyball.
(d) Narwhals.

13. Who was the owner of the Houston Rockets when Morey was a manager there?
(a) Joe Lomeo.
(b) Michael Morrison.
(c) Leslie Alexander.
(d) Marco Rollins.

14. Which of the following principals did Tversky set out to study/prove during his time in Michigan?
(a) Transitivity.
(b) Anchoring.
(c) Representativeness.
(d) The Halo Effect.

15. In Chapter 4, what did Dalia Etzion say Kahneman had difficulty distinguishing between?
(a) A good person and a traitor.
(b) A waste of time and a worth-while pursuit.
(c) An efficient soldier and an inefficient one.
(d) A hope and a dream.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Amos Tversky's father do for a living?

2. What company did Kahneman's father work for in the early 1940s?

3. Which of the following books did Kahneman like as a boy?

4. The belief in which of the following was the subject of Tversky's and Kahneman's early works?

5. Which book did Lewis publish in 2003?

(see the answer keys)

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