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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the original owner of the World Trade Center?
(a) Newark Transport Authority.
(b) New York Port Authority.
(c) New Jersey Airport.
(d) Pennsylvania Transport Authority.

2. Who was the engineer for the World Trade Center project?
(a) Thomas Colhard.
(b) Rachel Adams.
(c) Marcus Samuelson.
(d) Les Robertson.

3. 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?

4. Which Nobel prize-winner said that Tversky had a first-rate mind, which one could tell by listening to his lectures?
(a) Richard Feynman.
(b) Kenneth Arrow.
(c) Marshall Mathers.
(d) Murray Gell-Mann.

5. What did Tversky like to call good ideas?
(a) Brownies.
(b) Bonbons.
(c) Gold nuggets.
(d) Raisins.

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

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

8. Who coauthored the first article Tversky ever wrote about medicine?
(a) Hal Sox.
(b) Danny Kahneman.
(c) Don Redelmeier.
(d) Lew Goldberg.

9. What did Tversky and Kahneman do in the war in 1973?
(a) They were assigned as fighter pilots.
(b) They were assigned to the psychology unit.
(c) They were assigned as paratroopers.
(d) They were assigned as cooks.

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

11. What did Redelmeier's experiment measuring the so-called "peak-end rule" involve?
(a) Optical exams.
(b) Colonoscopies.
(c) Blood tests.
(d) Bone breakages.

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

13. Where were the leaders in decision analysis clustered in the early 1970s?
(a) Harvard Medical School.
(b) Oxford and Cambridge.
(c) The Stanford Research Institute.
(d) The Sorbonne.

14. 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 to avoid another fascist regime.
(c) They were fighting for Zionism.
(d) They were fighting for friends and families.

15. Where was Richard Thaler an assistant professor in 1975?
(a) University of Chicago.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Stanford University.
(d) University of Rochester.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Redelmeier think was odd, in hindsight, about his relationships with Tversky and Kahneman?

2. Where did Tversky travel to do research in the summer of 1970?

3. Where was Redelmeier accepted as a resident in 1985?

4. Where did Tversky spend the 1970-71 academic year?

5. In Oregon, where did Tversky and Kahneman find an office to work together in?

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