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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Chapters 6 - 8).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what was the hospital Donald Redelmeier worked at known for?
(a) Treating victims of car accidents.
(b) Treating bone injuries.
(c) Treating heart attacks.
(d) Treating mental health issues.

2. How did Paul Slovic describe Tversky's and Kahneman's way of collaborating?
(a) They talked to each other for hour after hour after hour.
(b) They worked almost entirely by email.
(c) They worked almost entirely over the phone.
(d) They communicated mostly through hand-written letters.

3. In Chapter 4, what did Dalia Etzion say Kahneman had difficulty distinguishing between?
(a) A hope and a dream.
(b) A waste of time and a worth-while pursuit.
(c) An efficient soldier and an inefficient one.
(d) A good person and a traitor.

4. Which of the following was a problem for Kahneman and Tversky in their investigations of biases and heuristics?
(a) They did not have the intellectual tools to understand what they were finding.
(b) They did not have the funding to complete their research.
(c) They did not have the time to complete their research.
(d) They did not have the physical stamina to complete their research.

5. In Chapter 5, how did Kahneman react to Tversky's lecture about Bayesian Theory?
(a) He suggested he and Tversky talk about writing reinforcements to the theory.
(b) He confronted and contradicted Tversky in real time.
(c) He agreed with everything Tversky had to say.
(d) He suggested he and Tversky start doing joint lectures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Redelmeier's experiment measuring the so-called "peak-end rule" involve?

2. What used to cause Kahneman a great deal of shame as a boy in the early 1940s?

3. What was the title of Tversky's and Kahneman's first paper to describe how people formed judgments?

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

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

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