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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 2007, which two players did Morey use his model to draft to great success?
(a) Alan Iverson and Aaron Brooks.
(b) Carl Landry and Alan Iverson.
(c) Aaron Brooks and Carl Landry.
(d) Jeremy Lin and Carl Landry.

2. To whom did Tversky write to explain his reasoning for staying in the United States?
(a) Mitchell Rodeon.
(b) Robert Scheinbaum.
(c) Gidon Czapski.
(d) Marcus Samuel.

3. Which theorist had offered an alternative to utility theory in the 1950s?
(a) Richard Thaler.
(b) Jonathan Keynes.
(c) Maurice Allais.
(d) Murray Gell-Mann.

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

5. Which of the following was a problem for Kahneman and Tversky in their investigations of biases and heuristics?
(a) They did not have the intellectual tools to understand what they were finding.
(b) They did not have the physical stamina to complete their research.
(c) They did not have the funding to complete their research.
(d) They did not have the time to complete their research.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Kahneman's first real friend?

2. Who did Amos Tversky stand beside in the line for the entrance tests to be admitted to Hebrew University's psychology program?

3. In the late 1960s, what did Kahneman help the Israeli army to do?

4. In Chapter 6, who persuaded the National Science Foundation to allocate $60,000 to him for a behavioral science research center?

5. Where did the Kahnemans move after leaving Europe in the 1940s?

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