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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Chapters 9 - 11).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book did Richard Thaler's father ask him to copy lines from when he was a child?
(a) A Tale of Two Cities.
(b) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
(c) The Jungle.
(d) The Chariots of Fire.

2. Where were the leaders in decision analysis clustered in the early 1970s?
(a) The Stanford Research Institute.
(b) Oxford and Cambridge.
(c) Harvard Medical School.
(d) The Sorbonne.

3. Where did Tversky's family move to in 1950?
(a) Haifa.
(b) Tel Aviv.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Rome.

4. What kind of audience did Tversky and Kahneman have in mind when they wrote their first papers together?
(a) World leaders.
(b) Their family and friends.
(c) Economists.
(d) No particular audience.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Redelmeier struggle with as a child?

2. What did Kahneman and Tversky discover about the soldiers' reasons for fighting?

3. Which Nobel prize-winner said that Tversky had a first-rate mind, which one could tell by listening to his lectures?

4. Kahneman felt that it was the anticipation of which of the following that affected many people's decisions?

5. Where was Tversky briefly installed as a military governor?

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