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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lewis say that Kahneman's volatility was for Danny?
(a) A weakness.
(b) Both a weakness and a strenth.
(c) A strength.
(d) A wrench in his career.

2. In Chapter 4, which university did Tversky begin working at upon his return to Israel?
(a) University of Tel Aviv.
(b) Haifa University.
(c) Hebrew University.
(d) University of Jerusalem.

3. Where was Kahneman's father imprisoned in 1941?
(a) Auschwitz.
(b) Munich.
(c) Drancy.
(d) Bergan-Belsen.

4. Which institution did Kahneman return to in 1967?
(a) Hebrew University.
(b) Jerusalem University.
(c) Tel Aviv University.
(d) Marion College.

5. Who did Amos Tversky stand beside in the line for the entrance tests to be admitted to Hebrew University's psychology program?
(a) Marshall Minkestein.
(b) Richard Sheinbaum.
(c) Amnon Rapoport.
(d) Danny Kahneman.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, who was only 18 years old when he was identified by the Israeli army as leadership material?

2. Why does Morey ultimately pass on drafting Satnam Singh?

3. What did Tversky think he originally might want to become?

4. Who was the owner of the Houston Rockets when Morey was a manager there?

5. How much older than he was Amos Tversky's sister?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was ironic about some people's perception that Daryl Morey must be a know-it-all?

2. In Chapter 2, how was Kahneman's father saved when the Nazis took him away in November 1941?

3. In Chapter 5, how did Kahneman react to Tversky's lecture to his own students about Ward Edwards' work on Bayesian Theory?

4. In Chapter 3, what was the first flight Tversky took during which he landed?

5. In Chapter 4, how did Barbara Tversky adjust to life in Israel?

6. What was Danny Kahneman particularly known for as a lecturer?

7. What event did Amos Tversky participate in in the late 1960s that drew him back into armed conflict?

8. Who were some of Tversky's first subjects during his early experiments on decision-making?

9. In Chapter 4, what did Kahneman say you had to study in order to study memory?

10. In 2007, what was the problem with the talented basketball player Sean Williams?

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