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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. Who was the architect of the World Trade Center in Chapter 6?
(a) Maya Lin.
(b) Minoru Yamasaki.
(c) Florence Fabricant.
(d) Jeremy Parker.

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

4. In Chapter 11, at what institution was Miles Shore the Bullard Professor of Psychiatry?
(a) Harvard Medical School.
(b) Yale Medical School.
(c) Princeton Medical School.
(d) Hebrew University Medical School.

5. In Chapter 9, why was Tversky worried about where Kahneman was sleeping?
(a) He thought Kahneman would be a target for abuse from other soldiers.
(b) He thought Kahneman might get hit by a sniper's bullet.
(c) He thought it was too near a tank and Kahneman night be crushed.
(d) He thought Kahneman might contract pneumonia.

6. What did Tversky and Kahneman eventually title their work about decision-making?
(a) Gain Theory.
(b) Marshall Theory.
(c) Loss Theory.
(d) Prospect Theory.

7. What did Tversky like to do in the summer of 1970 as he talked through some ideas with friends?
(a) Play video games.
(b) Shoot baskets.
(c) Play hockey.
(d) Play soccer.

8. What did people treat all remote probabilities as, according to Tversky's and Kahneman's findings?
(a) Homework.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Impossibilities.
(d) Possibilities.

9. Which of the following was one of Tversky's and Kahneman's heuristics for judgement?
(a) Hindsight.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Availability.
(d) The Halo Effect.

10. Once Tversky and Kahneman felt they had exhausted their research into judgment, what topic did they turn to?
(a) Decision-making.
(b) Fear.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Empathy.

11. Where did Kahneman fly to meet Anne Treisman and declare her love for her in 1975?
(a) Rome.
(b) Columbia.
(c) New York.
(d) London.

12. In Chapter 9, which of the following does Lewis say was never far from Tversky's and Kahneman's minds or conversations?
(a) Romance and fame.
(b) War and politics.
(c) Their children.
(d) Old grudges.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tversky and Kahneman do in the war in 1973?

2. What was Goldberg's paper about medical judgement that Lewis mentions in Chapter 6 titled?

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

4. What problem was Redelmeier most concerned about in hospitals?

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

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