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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Tversky travel to do research in the summer of 1970?
(a) Eugene, Oregon.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Seattle, Washington.
(d) Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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

4. What was Goldberg's paper about medical judgement that Lewis mentions in Chapter 6 titled?
(a) The Judgement Papers.
(b) The Expert Fallacy.
(c) Man versus Model of Man.
(d) Miracles of Misadventures in Medicine.

5. 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) Parents and children.
(d) Lovers.

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

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

8. Where did Redelmeier grow up?
(a) Tokyo.
(b) Toronto.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Beijing.

9. What did one Hebrew University official say to Tversky about him leaving Israel for the United States?
(a) It would be a betrayal.
(b) It would be a war crime.
(c) It would be a coup.
(d) It would be a national tragedy.

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

11. What kind of opinion did Tversky have about historians and history books?
(a) Tversky thought historians needed to work more closely with economists.
(b) Tversky thought historians needed to work more closely with fiction writers to make their writing more interesting.
(c) Tversky thought much of what was in history books was fiction created by the authors.
(d) Tversky had great respect for historians.

12. What hypothetical problem was a classic example of a framing issue?
(a) The Kobayashi Maru.
(b) The Blue Ocean Rant.
(c) The Fleishman Problem.
(d) The Asian Disease Problem.

13. In Chapter 6, who persuaded the National Science Foundation to allocate $60,000 to him for a behavioral science research center?
(a) Marshall McLuhan.
(b) Paul Hoffman.
(c) Amos Tversky.
(d) Danny Kahneman.

14. What theory did J. Allan Hobson refute effectively in his own research?
(a) The Keynesian theory of economics.
(b) The theory of regret in relation to gains.
(c) The Freudian idea that dreams arose from unconscious desires.
(d) Game theory.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which theorist had offered an alternative to utility theory in the 1950s?

2. What did Tversky hate but tolerate as a habit of Kahneman's?

3. In Chapter 9, what did Kahneman say people needed in order to make a decision rather than a number?

4. What did Kahneman and Tversky discover about the soldiers' reasons for fighting?

5. In Chapter 7, how did Tversky and Kahneman classify the relationship between prediction and judgment?

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