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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Chapters 6 - 8).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Tversky and Kahneman begin to realize that people were often doing rather than making random mistakes when they formed judgments?
(a) Making mistakes based on misperception of color.
(b) Making mistakes based on money.
(c) Doing something systematically wrong.
(d) Doing something fundamental to their survival.

2. Lewis opens the book with a quote from which author?
(a) Dickens.
(b) Keynes.
(c) Marshall.
(d) Voltaire.

3. What position did Tversky eventually rise to in the Israeli army?
(a) Tank driver.
(b) Platoon commander.
(c) Spy.
(d) General.

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

5. In Chapter 6, who persuaded the National Science Foundation to allocate $60,000 to him for a behavioral science research center?
(a) Amos Tversky.
(b) Danny Kahneman.
(c) Paul Hoffman.
(d) Marshall McLuhan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morey realize was one of his big mistakes with the unsuccessful player his model chose in 2008?

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

3. What was all that Daryl Morey wanted to do in life as a young man?

4. What did the Israeli army mistakenly think was the result of superiors praising pilots?

5. What school of psychological thought was Kahneman most attracted to as a young man?

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