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

2. In Chapter 11, at what institution was Miles Shore the Bullard Professor of Psychiatry?
(a) Princeton Medical School.
(b) Yale Medical School.
(c) Harvard Medical School.
(d) Hebrew University Medical School.

3. In 2008, which player did Morey draft for his team who did not work out very well?
(a) Alan Iverson.
(b) Marco Rollins.
(c) Jeremy Lin.
(d) Joey Dorsey.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tversky's friend Maya Bar-Hillel say about Tversky's reaction to getting his prestigious award in 1984?

2. In Chapter 12, what does Lewis observe that it did not look like the miracle of Tversky's and Kahneman's partnership could survive?

3. Where did the Kahnemans move after leaving Europe in the 1940s?

4. In Chapter 3, who was only 18 years old when he was identified by the Israeli army as leadership material?

5. What could often be heard from behind the closed door of the room Tversky and Kahneman worked in?

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