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

2. 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 singing skills.
(c) The ones he had about his finances.
(d) The ones he had about his own memory.

3. What does Lewis say that Kahneman's volatility was for Danny?
(a) A strength.
(b) A wrench in his career.
(c) A weakness.
(d) Both a weakness and a strenth.

4. What could often be heard from behind the closed door of the room Tversky and Kahneman worked in?
(a) Crying.
(b) Silence.
(c) Angry shouting.
(d) Laughter.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 4, who did Tversky marry in the United States?

3. What was the only think Kahneman and his mother found in their Paris apartment after the war?

4. In 2007, which two players did Morey use his model to draft to great success?

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

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