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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Tversky hate but tolerate as a habit of Kahneman's?
(a) Taking walks.
(b) Eating fish.
(c) Smoking.
(d) Playing checkers.

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

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

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

5. What did Tversky and Kahneman spend the academic year 1970 - 71 doing?
(a) Gathering grant money.
(b) Collecting data.
(c) Writing separate books.
(d) Researching questionnaire methods.

6. What did Kahneman and Tversky discover about the soldiers' reasons for fighting?
(a) They were fighting for friends and families.
(b) They were fighting to avoid another fascist regime.
(c) They were fighting because of their hatred of the Russians.
(d) They were fighting for Zionism.

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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) Paul Hoffman.
(c) Amos Tversky.
(d) Marshall McLuhan.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What publication did Tversky and Kahneman think offered them the best chance of reaching audiences outside of psychology?

2. Who was the psychology professor who thought Tversky's and Kahneman's early work would win a Nobel Prize in Economics?

3. What did the Israeli army mistakenly think was the result of superiors praising pilots?

4. What did Tversky like to call good ideas?

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

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