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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which mathematician had published the major theory of decision-making when Tversky and Kahneman started researching it?
(a) Leonardo DaVinci.
(b) Harold Bayes.
(c) Jonathan Keynes.
(d) Daniel Bernoulli.

2. What was Lew Goldberg's work known for addressing?
(a) The idea that being hungry makes one buy more when grocery shopping.
(b) The idea that expert judgments could be less reliable than algorithms.
(c) The idea that being cold makes one more likely to participate in violent acts.
(d) The idea that people's consumer habits are influenced heavily by colors.

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

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

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

6. Who was the head of the Israeli military psychology?
(a) Marshall Fishbein.
(b) Larry Sheinbaum.
(c) Lew Goldberg.
(d) Benny Shalit.

7. What did Kahneman determine was the real reason for the change in pilots' performance after praise or criticism?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Financial hardship.
(c) Regression to the mean.
(d) Insecurity.

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

9. 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 would be a target for abuse from other soldiers.
(c) He thought it was too near a tank and Kahneman night be crushed.
(d) He thought Kahneman might contract pneumonia.

10. 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) Kenneth Arrow.
(c) Richard Feynman.
(d) Marshall Mathers.

11. Which of the following was a problem for Kahneman and Tversky in their investigations of biases and heuristics?
(a) They did not have the funding to complete their research.
(b) They did not have the physical stamina to complete their research.
(c) They did not have the intellectual tools to understand what they were finding.
(d) They did not have the time to complete their research.

12. 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 to avoid another fascist regime.
(d) They were fighting for Zionism.

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

14. What did Redelmeier say Kahneman was more likely to see in his own work than Tversky was able to see in his own work?
(a) How it could be applied in the real world.
(b) How others would likely criticize it.
(c) How much money it would generate for the different universities.
(d) What was wrong with it.

15. Where did Tversky and Kahneman first go during the war in 1973 in the field?
(a) Syria.
(b) The Sinai.
(c) Tel Aviv.
(d) Jordan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book did Richard Thaler's father ask him to copy lines from when he was a child?

2. What did Redelmeier struggle with as a child?

3. Kahneman felt that it was the anticipation of which of the following that affected many people's decisions?

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

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

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