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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 12 - Coda).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did both Tversky and Kahneman sense regarding their joint work during their year in Eugene?
(a) More financial opportunities for both of them.
(b) A waning interest in their work.
(c) Less financial opportunities for both of them.
(d) Growing interest in their work.

2. What did Tversky like to call good ideas?
(a) Brownies.
(b) Gold nuggets.
(c) Raisins.
(d) Bonbons.

3. Who was the owner of the Houston Rockets when Morey was a manager there?
(a) Joe Lomeo.
(b) Leslie Alexander.
(c) Michael Morrison.
(d) Marco Rollins.

4. Whose research established the dangers of talking on the phone while driving?
(a) Ward Edwards.
(b) Lew Goldberg.
(c) Richard Thaler.
(d) Robert Tibshirani.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which psychologist in the 1990s heavily criticized Tversky's and Kahneman's work?

3. In Chapter 12, what does Lewis observe that it did not look like the miracle of Tversky's and Kahneman's partnership could survive?

4. How did Kahneman change the way tank drivers were trained?

5. What dream did Kahneman tell Tvresky he had while they were both in New York together in the early 1990s?

(see the answer key)

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