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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. Where did Tversky and Kahneman first go during the war in 1973 in the field?
(a) Tel Aviv.
(b) The Sinai.
(c) Jordan.
(d) Syria.

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

3. What is hindsight bias?
(a) People's tendency to like big numbers over small ones.
(b) People's tendency to look at an outcome and assume it was predictable all along.
(c) People's tendency to think they know more than they do before an event.
(d) People's tendency to blame their family members after the fact of an event.

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

5. Which team did Morey do some consulting for when he was a young man?
(a) The Boston Red Sox.
(b) The Washington Nationals.
(c) The Oakland Athletics.
(d) The Atlanta Braves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Morey choose to ban nicknames from use on the NBA team he manages?

2. What did Tversky hate but tolerate as a habit of Kahneman's?

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

4. To whom did Tversky write to explain his reasoning for staying in the United States?

5. Which of the following books did Kahneman like as a boy?

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