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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What state did Tversky leave Kahneman's seminar in in Chapter 5 that was unusual for him?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Excitement.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Doubt.

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

3. Lewis opens the book with a quote from which author?
(a) Marshall.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Dickens.
(d) Keynes.

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

5. Which team does Daryl Morey work for?
(a) The Houston Rockets.
(b) The Boston Celtics.
(c) The L.A. Lakers.
(d) The Miami Heat.

6. What did Tversky and Kahneman write that people's intuitive expectations are governed by in one of their early papers?
(a) A consistent misperception of the world.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Fear.
(d) Love.

7. What did many people who knew Tversky remember most about him?
(a) His cooking skills.
(b) His sonorous voice.
(c) His story-telling ability and great intelligence.
(d) His physical presence, as he was a large man.

8. Who was Amos Tversky's mother?
(a) Genia Tversky.
(b) Barbara Tversky.
(c) Anne Tversky.
(d) Marcia Tversky.

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

10. Who did Amos Tversky stand beside in the line for the entrance tests to be admitted to Hebrew University's psychology program?
(a) Amnon Rapoport.
(b) Marshall Minkestein.
(c) Danny Kahneman.
(d) Richard Sheinbaum.

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

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

13. The belief in which of the following was the subject of Tversky's and Kahneman's early works?
(a) The law of small numbers.
(b) The power of music.
(c) Regression to the mean.
(d) The Halo Effect.

14. Which British psychologist did Kahneman meet in the 1960s who he would later marry?
(a) Michelle Renquoir.
(b) Clodagh Ringwald.
(c) Anne Treisman.
(d) Marion Holland.

15. What used to cause Kahneman a great deal of shame as a boy in the early 1940s?
(a) Having to wear a badge identifying him as Jewish.
(b) The tattoo he had on his skin from the concentration camp.
(c) Having to wear old shoes to school.
(d) Not having enough to eat.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What was all that Daryl Morey wanted to do in life as a young man?

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

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