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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. Why were governments reluctant to seeding hurricanes?
(a) They would then be implicated in whatever damage the hurricane wrought.
(b) It could pollute the environment.
(c) It sometimes made hurricanes worse.
(d) It was very expensive.

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

3. What does Lewis say that Kahneman's volatility was for Danny?
(a) A wrench in his career.
(b) A weakness.
(c) A strength.
(d) Both a weakness and a strenth.

4. What type of structure did researchers build to try to simulate the swaying at the top of the new World Trade Center?
(a) A mechanical bull.
(b) A caster room.
(c) A wind tunnel.
(d) A sway room.

5. In Chapter 9, why was Tversky worried about where Kahneman was sleeping?
(a) He thought Kahneman would be a target for abuse from other soldiers.
(b) He thought Kahneman might contract pneumonia.
(c) He thought Kahneman might get hit by a sniper's bullet.
(d) He thought it was too near a tank and Kahneman night be crushed.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What position did Tversky eventually rise to in the Israeli army?

4. What did Tversky and Kahneman spend the academic year 1970 - 71 doing?

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

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