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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. What did people treat all remote probabilities as, according to Tversky's and Kahneman's findings?
(a) Impossibilities.
(b) Homework.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Possibilities.

2. What was Barbara Tversky doing when the war broke out in Israel in 1973?
(a) She was in the U.S. visiting family.
(b) She was on the way to the emergency room with her eldest son.
(c) She was teaching a class.
(d) She was cooking in a restaurant.

3. Where did Tversky spend the 1970-71 academic year?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Stanford University.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Yale University.

4. Who was Tversky visiting in the United States in the summer of 1970?
(a) Amnon Rapoport.
(b) Paul Slovic.
(c) Lewis Goldberg.
(d) Danny Kahneman.

5. Who did Amos Tversky stand beside in the line for the entrance tests to be admitted to Hebrew University's psychology program?
(a) Richard Sheinbaum.
(b) Marshall Minkestein.
(c) Amnon Rapoport.
(d) Danny Kahneman.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 12, what did Kahneman start to realize about Tversky's work once he and Tversky stopped working together so closely?

2. In Chapter 4, when did Tversky return to Israel after studying in Michigan?

3. Who was the architect of the World Trade Center in Chapter 6?

4. What was Kahneman's rule for getting fighter pilots to remember instructions?

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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