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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What book did Richard Thaler's father ask him to copy lines from when he was a child?
(a) The Jungle.
(b) A Tale of Two Cities.
(c) The Chariots of Fire.
(d) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

3. Where did Tversky travel to do research in the summer of 1970?
(a) Ann Arbor, Michigan.
(b) Seattle, Washington.
(c) Eugene, Oregon.
(d) Chicago, Illinois.

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

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

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

7. Who was in charge of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs that asked Kahneman for help in 1974?
(a) Zvi Lanir.
(b) Benyamin Albaum.
(c) Benny Shalit.
(d) Shimon Perez.

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

9. What was the title of Tversky's and Kahneman's first paper to describe how people formed judgments?
(a) The March of Time in Eugene.
(b) Who Will Choose the Pickle?
(c) Subjective Probability: A Judgment of Representativeness.
(d) Heuristics: A Primer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What problem was Redelmeier most concerned about in hospitals?

3. Where did Tversky and Kahneman first go during the war in 1973 in the field?

4. Who was the original owner of the World Trade Center?

5. Which of the following did Tversky and Kahneman find that people overwhelmingly chose in gambling simulations?

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