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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Barbara Tversky doing when the war broke out in Israel in 1973?
(a) She was on the way to the emergency room with her eldest son.
(b) She was cooking in a restaurant.
(c) She was in the U.S. visiting family.
(d) She was teaching a class.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What did people treat all remote probabilities as, according to Tversky's and Kahneman's findings?
(a) Possibilities.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Homework.
(d) Impossibilities.

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

9. Kahneman felt that it was the anticipation of which of the following that affected many people's decisions?
(a) Embarrassment.
(b) Contentment.
(c) Regret.
(d) Anger.

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

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

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

13. Where was Redelmeier accepted as a resident in 1985?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Yale.
(c) Thomas Jefferson University.
(d) Stanford.

14. Which of the following was one of Tversky's and Kahneman's heuristics for judgement?
(a) Hindsight.
(b) The Halo Effect.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Availability.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which theorist had offered an alternative to utility theory in the 1950s?

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

3. What did Redelmeier struggle with as a child?

4. Where were the leaders in decision analysis clustered in the early 1970s?

5. What kind of audience did Tversky and Kahneman have in mind when they wrote their first papers together?

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