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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. What did Redelmeier say Kahneman was more likely to see in his own work than Tversky was able to see in his own work?
(a) How much money it would generate for the different universities.
(b) What was wrong with it.
(c) How it could be applied in the real world.
(d) How others would likely criticize it.

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

3. What did Tversky and Kahneman begin to realize that people were often doing rather than making random mistakes when they formed judgments?
(a) Making mistakes based on money.
(b) Making mistakes based on misperception of color.
(c) Doing something fundamental to their survival.
(d) Doing something systematically wrong.

4. What state did Tversky leave Kahneman's seminar in in Chapter 5 that was unusual for him?
(a) Excitement.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Doubt.

5. Who was Amos Tversky's mother?
(a) Barbara Tversky.
(b) Marcia Tversky.
(c) Anne Tversky.
(d) Genia Tversky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Kahnemans do to pass as Christians while in hiding?

2. Where did Redelmeier grow up?

3. What was the compound involved in seeding hurricanes?

4. In Chapter 4, what did Dalia Etzion say Kahneman had difficulty distinguishing between?

5. Who was Tversky visiting in the United States in the summer of 1970?

(see the answer key)

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