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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 type of structure did researchers build to try to simulate the swaying at the top of the new World Trade Center?
(a) A wind tunnel.
(b) A caster room.
(c) A mechanical bull.
(d) A sway room.

2. What did Tversky and Kahneman find about many choices all decision-makers face?
(a) The choices are clouded by positive emotions.
(b) The choices are clouded by other people's opinions.
(c) The choices are affected by whether or not one is a parent.
(d) The choices are often two unpleasant options.

3. Which fellow student did Tversky have an intense relationship with in school?
(a) Dahlia Ravikovitch.
(b) Marsha Mathers.
(c) Julie Sheinbaum.
(d) Bennie Mitchell.

4. Why did Amnon Rapoport travel to North Carolina in 1961?
(a) He was assigned there by a Fulbright scholarship Committee.
(b) He had a job interview there.
(c) He had a family funeral there.
(d) He went to work on a painting project with a friend.

5. What did Tversky and Kahneman write that people's intuitive expectations are governed by in one of their early papers?
(a) Hunger.
(b) A consistent misperception of the world.
(c) Love.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did the War of Independence last?

2. Why were governments reluctant to seeding hurricanes?

3. What position did Tversky eventually rise to in the Israeli army?

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

5. Where was Richard Thaler an assistant professor in 1975?

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