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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. What did many people who knew Tversky remember most about him?
(a) His story-telling ability and great intelligence.
(b) His sonorous voice.
(c) His physical presence, as he was a large man.
(d) His cooking skills.

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

3. What was Lew Goldberg's work known for addressing?
(a) The idea that being cold makes one more likely to participate in violent acts.
(b) The idea that people's consumer habits are influenced heavily by colors.
(c) The idea that being hungry makes one buy more when grocery shopping.
(d) The idea that expert judgments could be less reliable than algorithms.

4. What problem was Redelmeier most concerned about in hospitals?
(a) Preventable infections.
(b) Clinical misjudgment.
(c) Lack of staff.
(d) Overcharging.

5. What kind of opinion did Tversky have about historians and history books?
(a) Tversky thought much of what was in history books was fiction created by the authors.
(b) Tversky thought historians needed to work more closely with fiction writers to make their writing more interesting.
(c) Tversky had great respect for historians.
(d) Tversky thought historians needed to work more closely with economists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject was Kahneman running experiments on in his Berkeley lab by the time he met Redelmeier?

2. What is hindsight bias?

3. Where were the leaders in decision analysis clustered in the early 1970s?

4. In Chapter 11, at what institution was Miles Shore the Bullard Professor of Psychiatry?

5. Why does Kahneman remember April 27, 1944?

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