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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. Lewis opens the book with a quote from which author?
(a) Keynes.
(b) Dickens.
(c) Marshall.
(d) Voltaire.

2. Which team did Stephan Curry play for?
(a) The L.A. Lakers.
(b) The Houston Rockets.
(c) The Golden State Warriors.
(d) The Miami Heat.

3. Why were governments reluctant to seeding hurricanes?
(a) It could pollute the environment.
(b) It was very expensive.
(c) They would then be implicated in whatever damage the hurricane wrought.
(d) It sometimes made hurricanes worse.

4. Where was Redelmeier accepted as a resident in 1985?
(a) Yale.
(b) Thomas Jefferson University.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Stanford.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lewis say that Kahneman's volatility was for Danny?

2. In Chapter 6, who persuaded the National Science Foundation to allocate $60,000 to him for a behavioral science research center?

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

4. Who did Amos Tversky stand beside in the line for the entrance tests to be admitted to Hebrew University's psychology program?

5. How long did the War of Independence last?

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