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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the Kahnemans move after leaving Europe in the 1940s?
(a) America.
(b) Palestine.
(c) Russia.
(d) China.

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

3. Where was Kahneman's father imprisoned in 1941?
(a) Drancy.
(b) Bergan-Belsen.
(c) Munich.
(d) Auschwitz.

4. Which psychologist's work prompted Tversky to travel to Michigan to study?
(a) Murray Gell-Mann.
(b) Danny Kahneman.
(c) Michael Bayes.
(d) Ward Edwards.

5. Where did Daryl Morey go to college?
(a) University of Chicago.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Loyola.
(d) Northwestern University.

6. Who did Singh tell Morey and his team were his two favorite basketball players?
(a) Yao Ming and Shaquille O'Neal.
(b) LeBron James and Yao Ming.
(c) Jeremy Lin and Michael Jordan.
(d) Shaquille O'Neal and Michael Jordan.

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

8. Why did Amnon Rapoport travel to North Carolina in 1961?
(a) He went to work on a painting project with a friend.
(b) He had a family funeral there.
(c) He was assigned there by a Fulbright scholarship Committee.
(d) He had a job interview there.

9. Which team did Morey do some consulting for when he was a young man?
(a) The Washington Nationals.
(b) The Boston Red Sox.
(c) The Oakland Athletics.
(d) The Atlanta Braves.

10. In Chapter 4, when did Tversky return to Israel after studying in Michigan?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1970.

11. How long did the War of Independence last?
(a) Two years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Ten months.
(d) Six months.

12. What illness did Kahneman's father suffer from?
(a) Multiple Sclerosis.
(b) Huntington's Disease.
(c) Lupus.
(d) Diabetes.

13. Which of the following books did Kahneman like as a boy?
(a) A Christmas Carol.
(b) Lolita.
(c) War and Peace.
(d) Around the World in Eighty Days.

14. What was the only think Kahneman and his mother found in their Paris apartment after the war?
(a) Two luxurious green chairs.
(b) The mother's jewelry.
(c) Some china plates.
(d) A wooden cupboard.

15. What did Tversky think most people paid an enormous price for?
(a) Love.
(b) Bearing grudges.
(c) Avoiding mild embarrassment.
(d) Financial security.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Kahneman and Tversky solidify their working collaboration by?

2. In Chapter 2, what does Lewis identify as the most curious of Danny Kahneman's personal doubts?

3. The belief in which of the following was the subject of Tversky's and Kahneman's early works?

4. In Chapter 4, what did Kahneman say was necessary to study if one was interested in studying memory?

5. In Chapter 4, what did Dalia Etzion say Kahneman had difficulty distinguishing between?

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