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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Redelmeier struggle with as a child?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Eczema.
(c) A speech impediment.
(d) Polio.

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

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

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

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

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

8. In Chapter 8, what was the hospital Donald Redelmeier worked at known for?
(a) Treating victims of car accidents.
(b) Treating mental health issues.
(c) Treating bone injuries.
(d) Treating heart attacks.

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

10. Who was Tversky visiting in the United States in the summer of 1970?
(a) Danny Kahneman.
(b) Paul Slovic.
(c) Amnon Rapoport.
(d) Lewis Goldberg.

11. What was the compound involved in seeding hurricanes?
(a) Silver iodide.
(b) Nitrogen Oxide.
(c) Carbon Dioxide.
(d) Platinum Oxide.

12. Where did Tversky spend the 1970-71 academic year?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Stanford University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Princeton University.

13. 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 people's consumer habits are influenced heavily by colors.
(c) The idea that expert judgments could be less reliable than algorithms.
(d) The idea that being cold makes one more likely to participate in violent acts.

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

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 sway room.
(b) A mechanical bull.
(c) A caster room.
(d) A wind tunnel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Once Tversky and Kahneman felt they had exhausted their research into judgment, what topic did they turn to?

2. What feeling was regret closely linked to, according to Tversky's and Kahneman's research in Chapter 9?

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

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

5. In Chapter 9, why was Tversky worried about where Kahneman was sleeping?

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