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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. In Chapter 11, at what institution was Miles Shore the Bullard Professor of Psychiatry?
(a) Yale Medical School.
(b) Harvard Medical School.
(c) Hebrew University Medical School.
(d) Princeton Medical School.

2. Who did Amos Tversky stand beside in the line for the entrance tests to be admitted to Hebrew University's psychology program?
(a) Amnon Rapoport.
(b) Marshall Minkestein.
(c) Richard Sheinbaum.
(d) Danny Kahneman.

3. Why does Morey choose to ban nicknames from use on the NBA team he manages?
(a) They can add to bias and cloud judgment when picking players.
(b) They can lead to fights on the court.
(c) They can give the team a bad reputation.
(d) They can hurt players' feelings.

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

5. 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 communicated mostly through hand-written letters.
(c) They worked almost entirely by email.
(d) They worked almost entirely over the phone.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did the War of Independence last?

2. What did Tversky and Kahneman begin to realize that people were often doing rather than making random mistakes when they formed judgments?

3. What did Kahneman and Tversky discover about the soldiers' reasons for fighting?

4. What did both Tversky and Kahneman sense regarding their joint work during their year in Eugene?

5. What materials did researchers use to demonstrate Bayes's rule?

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