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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were governments reluctant to seeding hurricanes?
(a) It could pollute the environment.
(b) It sometimes made hurricanes worse.
(c) They would then be implicated in whatever damage the hurricane wrought.
(d) It was very expensive.

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

3. Which theorist had offered an alternative to utility theory in the 1950s?
(a) Jonathan Keynes.
(b) Murray Gell-Mann.
(c) Maurice Allais.
(d) Richard Thaler.

4. What feeling was regret closely linked to, according to Tversky's and Kahneman's research in Chapter 9?
(a) Disliking one's spouse.
(b) Hurting someone else's feelings.
(c) Feeling anger towards a parent.
(d) Coming close to some goal or desire but not achieving it.

5. Where did Tversky travel to as the cease-fire took hold?
(a) The Suez Canal area.
(b) Tel Aviv.
(c) Moscow.
(d) The Sinai.

6. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky and Kahneman briefly focus on once they despaired of changing adult minds about decision-making mistakes?
(a) Fictional books to help teach children about flaws in logical processes.
(b) College courses to help train parents to teach their children about flaws in decision-making processes.
(c) Programs for elementary-aged children.
(d) Cartoon programs to help teach children about decision-making mistakes.

7. What was Barbara Tversky doing when the war broke out in Israel in 1973?
(a) She was cooking in a restaurant.
(b) She was on the way to the emergency room with her eldest son.
(c) She was teaching a class.
(d) She was in the U.S. visiting family.

8. What one question did Kenneth Arrow ask Tversky after his lecture in Chapter 10?
(a) What is the difference between regret and envy?
(b) What is a loss?
(c) What can we apply from this lecture to the field of economics?
(d) What is a gain?

9. What was the title of Tversky's and Kahneman's first paper to describe how people formed judgments?
(a) Heuristics: A Primer.
(b) Subjective Probability: A Judgment of Representativeness.
(c) Who Will Choose the Pickle?
(d) The March of Time in Eugene.

10. How did Kahneman change the way tank drivers were trained?
(a) He said they would learn best in bursts of 30-minute intervals.
(b) He said they would learn best in pairs.
(c) He said they would learn best by taking notes.
(d) He said they would learn best in trios.

11. What did Kahneman and Tversky discover about the soldiers' reasons for fighting?
(a) They were fighting because of their hatred of the Russians.
(b) They were fighting for friends and families.
(c) They were fighting for Zionism.
(d) They were fighting to avoid another fascist regime.

12. In Chapter 9, what does Lewis say Kahneman's and Tversky's relationship was like in every way other than sexually?
(a) Siblings.
(b) Cousins.
(c) Lovers.
(d) Parents and children.

13. To whom did Tversky write to explain his reasoning for staying in the United States?
(a) Marcus Samuel.
(b) Robert Scheinbaum.
(c) Mitchell Rodeon.
(d) Gidon Czapski.

14. Where was Redelmeier accepted as a resident in 1985?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Stanford.
(c) Thomas Jefferson University.
(d) Yale.

15. What type of structure did researchers build to try to simulate the swaying at the top of the new World Trade Center?
(a) A mechanical bull.
(b) A wind tunnel.
(c) A caster room.
(d) A sway room.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the original owner of the World Trade Center?

2. Which mathematician had published the major theory of decision-making when Tversky and Kahneman started researching it?

3. Who was the architect of the World Trade Center in Chapter 6?

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

5. Where did Kahneman fly to meet Anne Treisman and declare her love for her in 1975?

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