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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Chapters 3 - 5).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which book had a big influence on Daryl Morey when he was a teenager?
(a) Moneyball.
(b) Narwhals.
(c) The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract.
(d) The Marshall Plan.

2. In Chapter 4, what did Kahneman say was necessary to study if one was interested in studying memory?
(a) Endorphins.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Forgetting.
(d) Intelligence.

3. How long did the War of Independence last?
(a) Five years.
(b) Ten months.
(c) Six months.
(d) Two years.

4. In Chapter 3, who was only 18 years old when he was identified by the Israeli army as leadership material?
(a) Danny Kahneman.
(b) Amos Tversky.
(c) Marshall Minklestein.
(d) Amnon Rapoport.

5. In Chapter 2, what does Lewis identify as the most curious of Danny Kahneman's personal doubts?
(a) The ones he had about his own intellectual talent.
(b) The ones he had about his own memory.
(c) The ones he had about his singing skills.
(d) The ones he had about his finances.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Morey choose to ban nicknames from use on the NBA team he manages?

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

3. In Chapter 5, how did Kahneman react to Tversky's lecture about Bayesian Theory?

4. When did the Kahnemans leave Europe?

5. What state did Tversky leave Kahneman's seminar in in Chapter 5 that was unusual for him?

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