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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. Which of the following organizations asked Tversky for consulting help?
(a) North American Treaty Organization.
(b) The Polish government.
(c) Boeing.
(d) Eli Lily.

2. Who served as the middleman in the negotiations between Israel and Syria in 1974?
(a) Henry Kissinger.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Bill Mitchell.
(d) Bill Clinton.

3. What did Redelmeier struggle with as a child?
(a) Blindness.
(b) A speech impediment.
(c) Eczema.
(d) Polio.

4. Morey said that knowledge is literally which of the following?
(a) Power.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Danger.
(d) Prediction.

5. What did Tversky and Kahneman begin to realize that people were often doing rather than making random mistakes when they formed judgments?
(a) Making mistakes based on money.
(b) Making mistakes based on misperception of color.
(c) Doing something systematically wrong.
(d) Doing something fundamental to their survival.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname did Houston radio personalities give to Daryl Morey when he first took over as general manager of the city's NBA team?

2. What was it about Tversky's language in papers that bothered Kahneman?

3. Where did Redelmeier grow up?

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

5. Who did Amos Tversky dedicate his PhD dissertation to?

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