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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 12 - Coda).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Kahneman remember April 27, 1944?
(a) It was the night the family fled Europe.
(b) It was the night his sister died.
(c) It was the night their house was bombed.
(d) It was the night before his father died.

2. What did Tversky tell Delta Airlines to do to try to help avoid pilot errors?
(a) Train the flight attendants to fly the planes.
(b) Change its decision-making environments.
(c) Pay the pilots more.
(d) Only have one pilot in the cockpit.

3. What nickname did Houston radio personalities give to Daryl Morey when he first took over as general manager of the city's NBA team?
(a) The Killer.
(b) Deep Blue.
(c) The Ringer.
(d) Bulldog.

4. Who coauthored the first article Tversky ever wrote about medicine?
(a) Don Redelmeier.
(b) Danny Kahneman.
(c) Lew Goldberg.
(d) Hal Sox.

5. Where was Kahneman's father imprisoned in 1941?
(a) Drancy.
(b) Munich.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Bergan-Belsen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did many people who knew Tversky remember most about him?

2. Which of the following books did Kahneman like as a boy?

3. What dream did Kahneman tell Tvresky he had while they were both in New York together in the early 1990s?

4. According to Lewis, people do not choose between things but rather between which of the following?

5. What did Tversky and Kahneman write that people's intuitive expectations are governed by in one of their early papers?

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