1. What kind of audience did Tversky and Kahneman have in mind when they wrote their first papers together?
(a) Economists.
(b) No particular audience.
(c) World leaders.
(d) Their family and friends.

2. In Chapter 4, what did Dalia Etzion say Kahneman had difficulty distinguishing between?
(a) A hope and a dream.
(b) An efficient soldier and an inefficient one.
(c) A good person and a traitor.
(d) A waste of time and a worth-while pursuit.

3. What population did Redelmeier's 1991 experiment target?
(a) The wealthy.
(b) The homeless.
(c) The refugee community.
(d) Religious minorities.

4. Where was Redelmeier accepted as a resident in 1985?
(a) Stanford.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Thomas Jefferson University.
(d) Yale.

5. Which lawyer worked in the Obama administration and used Tversky's and Kahneman's ideas to craft policy?
(a) Cass Sunstein.
(b) Richard Thaler.
(c) Samantha Power.
(d) Kay Rhoades.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which hypothetical problem did Tversky and Kahneman use to illustrate the mistakes people make in judgments when they are given irrelevant information?

2. What is hindsight bias?

3. Where did Tversky's family move to in 1950?

4. When did the Kahnemans leave Europe?

5. Why does Kahneman remember April 27, 1944?

(see the answer key)

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