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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. Which psychologist's work prompted Tversky to travel to Michigan to study?
(a) Michael Bayes.
(b) Murray Gell-Mann.
(c) Danny Kahneman.
(d) Ward Edwards.

2. Where was Tversky briefly installed as a military governor?
(a) Haifa.
(b) Jericho.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Tel Aviv.

3. What theory did J. Allan Hobson refute effectively in his own research?
(a) The Keynesian theory of economics.
(b) Game theory.
(c) The Freudian idea that dreams arose from unconscious desires.
(d) The theory of regret in relation to gains.

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

5. What was Lew Goldberg's work known for addressing?
(a) The idea that people's consumer habits are influenced heavily by colors.
(b) The idea that expert judgments could be less reliable than algorithms.
(c) The idea that being hungry makes one buy more when grocery shopping.
(d) The idea that being cold makes one more likely to participate in violent acts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role did Tversky have when he first joined the Israeli army?

2. What did Redelmeier's experiment measuring the so-called "peak-end rule" involve?

3. What was Barbara Tversky doing when the war broke out in Israel in 1973?

4. To whom did Tversky write to explain his reasoning for staying in the United States?

5. Why were governments reluctant to seeding hurricanes?

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