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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. Who was the original owner of the World Trade Center?
(a) Pennsylvania Transport Authority.
(b) Newark Transport Authority.
(c) New Jersey Airport.
(d) New York Port Authority.

2. What did Tversky and Kahneman do in the war in 1973?
(a) They were assigned as cooks.
(b) They were assigned to the psychology unit.
(c) They were assigned as paratroopers.
(d) They were assigned as fighter pilots.

3. In Chapter 6, who persuaded the National Science Foundation to allocate $60,000 to him for a behavioral science research center?
(a) Danny Kahneman.
(b) Paul Hoffman.
(c) Marshall McLuhan.
(d) Amos Tversky.

4. What did Tversky think he originally might want to become?
(a) An accountant.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A poet or literary critic.
(d) A doctor.

5. What theory did J. Allan Hobson refute effectively in his own research?
(a) The Freudian idea that dreams arose from unconscious desires.
(b) Game theory.
(c) The Keynesian theory of economics.
(d) The theory of regret in relation to gains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did both Tversky and Kahneman sense regarding their joint work during their year in Eugene?

2. What school of psychological thought was Kahneman most attracted to as a young man?

3. What was Tversky's favorite television drama?

4. What did Tversky and Kahneman spend the academic year 1970 - 71 doing?

5. Which Nobel prize-winner said that Tversky had a first-rate mind, which one could tell by listening to his lectures?

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