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

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

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

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

5. What did Redelmeier think was odd, in hindsight, about his relationships with Tversky and Kahneman?
(a) How strange it was that neither man had invited him to travel to Israel.
(b) How each man did his best work while playing basketball and discussing their ideas at the same time.
(c) How little he knew about each man's life.
(d) How little he knew about each man's educational background.

6. In Chapter 8, where did Donald Redelmeier work?
(a) Mount Sinai Hospital.
(b) Boston University Hospital.
(c) Los Angeles Hospital.
(d) Sunnybrook Hospital.

7. Why were governments reluctant to seeding hurricanes?
(a) It was very expensive.
(b) It sometimes made hurricanes worse.
(c) They would then be implicated in whatever damage the hurricane wrought.
(d) It could pollute the environment.

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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 others would likely criticize it.
(b) How much money it would generate for the different universities.
(c) How it could be applied in the real world.
(d) What was wrong with it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was a problem for Kahneman and Tversky in their investigations of biases and heuristics?

2. In Chapter 6, who persuaded the National Science Foundation to allocate $60,000 to him for a behavioral science research center?

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

4. What one question did Kenneth Arrow ask Tversky after his lecture in Chapter 10?

5. What did Tversky and Kahneman find about many choices all decision-makers face?

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