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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 was Barbara Tversky doing when the war broke out in Israel in 1973?
(a) She was in the U.S. visiting family.
(b) She was cooking in a restaurant.
(c) She was teaching a class.
(d) She was on the way to the emergency room with her eldest son.

2. What was Kahneman's rule for getting fighter pilots to remember instructions?
(a) The Magical Number Seven.
(b) The Rule of Threes.
(c) The Rule of Fourths.
(d) The Magical Number Nine.

3. What was the only think Kahneman and his mother found in their Paris apartment after the war?
(a) A wooden cupboard.
(b) The mother's jewelry.
(c) Some china plates.
(d) Two luxurious green chairs.

4. Who was the engineer for the World Trade Center project?
(a) Marcus Samuelson.
(b) Rachel Adams.
(c) Thomas Colhard.
(d) Les Robertson.

5. What did people treat all remote probabilities as, according to Tversky's and Kahneman's findings?
(a) Impossibilities.
(b) Possibilities.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Homework.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the original owner of the World Trade Center?

2. Who did Singh tell Morey and his team were his two favorite basketball players?

3. How did Tversky's classmates in Michigan remember him in his earliest days there?

4. Which very large player does Morey's team meet in 2015 as a potential draft pick?

5. In Chapter 9, which of the following does Lewis say was never far from Tversky's and Kahneman's minds or conversations?

(see the answer key)

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