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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where did Kahneman fly to meet Anne Treisman and declare her love for her in 1975?
(a) London.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Rome.
(d) New York.

5. What one question did Kenneth Arrow ask Tversky after his lecture in Chapter 10?
(a) What is the difference between regret and envy?
(b) What can we apply from this lecture to the field of economics?
(c) What is a loss?
(d) What is a gain?

6. How did Paul Slovic describe Tversky's and Kahneman's way of collaborating?
(a) They communicated mostly through hand-written letters.
(b) They worked almost entirely over the phone.
(c) They worked almost entirely by email.
(d) They talked to each other for hour after hour after hour.

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

8. What subject was Kahneman running experiments on in his Berkeley lab by the time he met Redelmeier?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Regret.
(c) Envy.
(d) Financial Hardship.

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

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

11. What did Tversky and Kahneman eventually title their work about decision-making?
(a) Marshall Theory.
(b) Loss Theory.
(c) Prospect Theory.
(d) Gain Theory.

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

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

14. Who was the original owner of the World Trade Center?
(a) Newark Transport Authority.
(b) New York Port Authority.
(c) New Jersey Airport.
(d) Pennsylvania Transport Authority.

15. In Oregon, where did Tversky and Kahneman find an office to work together in?
(a) A former Unitarian church.
(b) A former post office.
(c) A former florist shop.
(d) A former butcher shop.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where did Tversky travel to as the cease-fire took hold?

4. Who coauthored the first article Tversky ever wrote about medicine?

5. What did Tversky and Kahneman begin to realize that people were often doing rather than making random mistakes when they formed judgments?

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