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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Kahneman's rule for getting fighter pilots to remember instructions?
(a) The Rule of Threes.
(b) The Rule of Fourths.
(c) The Magical Number Seven.
(d) The Magical Number Nine.

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

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

4. What company did Kahneman's father work for in the early 1940s?
(a) Morrison Yorn.
(b) Malcamay.
(c) Gucci.
(d) L'Oreal.

5. In Chapter 4, what did Kahneman say was necessary to study if one was interested in studying memory?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Endorphins.
(d) Forgetting.

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

7. Which book had a big influence on Daryl Morey when he was a teenager?
(a) Moneyball.
(b) The Marshall Plan.
(c) Narwhals.
(d) The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract.

8. In 2007, which two players did Morey use his model to draft to great success?
(a) Aaron Brooks and Carl Landry.
(b) Jeremy Lin and Carl Landry.
(c) Alan Iverson and Aaron Brooks.
(d) Carl Landry and Alan Iverson.

9. In the late 1960s, what did Kahneman help the Israeli army to do?
(a) Devise financial incentives to entice army recruits for service.
(b) Train fighter pilots better.
(c) Train spys.
(d) Devise menus for soldiers to minimize food waste.

10. What was all that Daryl Morey wanted to do in life as a young man?
(a) Become a day trader on Wall Street.
(b) Become a businessman.
(c) Design tall buildings.
(d) Build winning sports teams.

11. Which of the following principals did Tversky set out to study/prove during his time in Michigan?
(a) Transitivity.
(b) Anchoring.
(c) The Halo Effect.
(d) Representativeness.

12. What kind of professional does Morey often hire who always seem to disappoint him?
(a) Psychologists.
(b) Writers.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Lawyers.

13. What kind of class did Morey enroll in during his time at Harvard Business School?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Sports Medicine.
(c) Dance.
(d) Behavioral Economics.

14. How did Tversky's classmates in Michigan remember him in his earliest days there?
(a) He was largely absent from class.
(b) He was quiet and attentive.
(c) He always spoke in French.
(d) He was loud and disruptive.

15. When did Kahneman and Tversky solidify their working collaboration by?
(a) Winter 1964.
(b) Fall 1969.
(c) Spring 1963.
(d) Summer 1960.

Short Answer Questions

1. What could often be heard from behind the closed door of the room Tversky and Kahneman worked in?

2. What materials did researchers use to demonstrate Bayes's rule?

3. Where did the Kahnemans move after leaving Europe in the 1940s?

4. In Chapter 3, who was only 18 years old when he was identified by the Israeli army as leadership material?

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

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