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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Tversky like to do in the summer of 1970 as he talked through some ideas with friends?
(a) Shoot baskets.
(b) Play hockey.
(c) Play soccer.
(d) Play video games.

2. What did people treat all remote probabilities as, according to Tversky's and Kahneman's findings?
(a) Impossibilities.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Possibilities.
(d) Homework.

3. Where did Tversky spend the 1970-71 academic year?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Stanford University.

4. What was Goldberg's paper about medical judgement that Lewis mentions in Chapter 6 titled?
(a) Miracles of Misadventures in Medicine.
(b) Man versus Model of Man.
(c) The Expert Fallacy.
(d) The Judgement Papers.

5. What was the compound involved in seeding hurricanes?
(a) Silver iodide.
(b) Nitrogen Oxide.
(c) Platinum Oxide.
(d) Carbon Dioxide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tversky and Kahneman eventually title their work about decision-making?

2. Why were governments reluctant to seeding hurricanes?

3. In Chapter 8, where did Donald Redelmeier work?

4. Who was the engineer for the World Trade Center project?

5. What hypothetical problem was a classic example of a framing issue?

Short Essay Questions

1. After the conflict in 1973, what topic did Tversky entice Kahneman to work with him on tackling?

2. In Chapter 9, what does Kahneman identify as a central component of the experience of misery?

3. In Chapter 9, what was one event that made Kahneman lose faith in his and Tversky's research to change minds at a high level?

4. In Chapter 8, what is one reason Redelmeier suspected Tversky seemed to have so much time to work with him on ideas and papers?

5. In Chapter 9, what touched Kahneman about Tversky's advice to him about where to sleep while they were in the area of the fighting in Israel?

6. In Chapter 9, what is one practical change Kahneman suggested to the Israeli army based on the garbage he saw on the side of the road?

7. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky find when he went to the Suez Canal at the end of the conflict in 1973?

8. In Chapter 8, what was Redelmeier's impression about the differences between working with Kahneman and Tversky?

9. In Chapter 7, what mathematical principle did Kahneman find was responsible for pilots' performance after praise or criticism?

10. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky and Kahneman find out about soldiers' motivations for fighting?

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