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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Chapters 9 - 11).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Doing something systematically wrong.
(c) Doing something fundamental to their survival.
(d) Making mistakes based on misperception of color.

3. Where did Kahneman fly to meet Anne Treisman and declare her love for her in 1975?
(a) New York.
(b) London.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Rome.

4. What kind of class did Morey enroll in during his time at Harvard Business School?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Behavioral Economics.
(c) Dance.
(d) Sports Medicine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tversky and Kahneman write that people's intuitive expectations are governed by in one of their early papers?

2. What illness did Kahneman's father suffer from?

3. In Chapter 9, why was Tversky worried about where Kahneman was sleeping?

4. Who did Amos Tversky dedicate his PhD dissertation to?

5. Where did Tversky and Kahneman first go during the war in 1973 in the field?

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