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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. Morey said that knowledge is literally which of the following?
(a) Prediction.
(b) Danger.
(c) Power.
(d) Intelligence.
2. Where did the Kahnemans move after leaving Europe in the 1940s?
(a) Palestine.
(b) China.
(c) America.
(d) Russia.
3. Which team did Morey do some consulting for when he was a young man?
(a) The Washington Nationals.
(b) The Atlanta Braves.
(c) The Boston Red Sox.
(d) The Oakland Athletics.
4. Where was Kahneman's father imprisoned in 1941?
(a) Bergan-Belsen.
(b) Munich.
(c) Drancy.
(d) Auschwitz.
5. In Chapter 4, who did Tversky marry in the United States?
(a) Marcia Marhters.
(b) Jennifer Torrence.
(c) Rachel Gedard.
(d) Barbara Gans.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is hindsight bias?
2. Which very large player does Morey's team meet in 2015 as a potential draft pick?
3. How long did the War of Independence last?
4. Why did Amnon Rapoport travel to North Carolina in 1961?
5. What role did Tversky have when he first joined the Israeli army?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 2, what did Shimon Shamir recall about Kahneman from their school days?
2. What is the common theme of the stories Lewis collects from Tversky's friends' and colleagues' recollections about him in Chapter 3?
3. Which book did Lewis publish in 2003 and what was it about?
4. Who were some of Tversky's first subjects during his early experiments on decision-making?
5. In Chapter 2, how was Kahneman's father saved when the Nazis took him away in November 1941?
6. Why did Morey miss out on picking the very talented Jeremy Lin for the Houston Rockets team?
7. In Chapter 3, what was the first flight Tversky took during which he landed?
8. In Chapter 3, what was Amnon Rapoport's first impression of Amos Tversky?
9. Why did Morey ban the giving out of nicknames at the Houston Rockets?
10. In Chapter 2, how did Kahneman feel about each of his parents?
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