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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. Why does Kahneman remember April 27, 1944?
(a) It was the night their house was bombed.
(b) It was the night before his father died.
(c) It was the night his sister died.
(d) It was the night the family fled Europe.

2. What is hindsight bias?
(a) People's tendency to blame their family members after the fact of an event.
(b) People's tendency to like big numbers over small ones.
(c) People's tendency to think they know more than they do before an event.
(d) People's tendency to look at an outcome and assume it was predictable all along.

3. What was Marc Gasol's nickname that blinded Morey and some others from seeing his true talent?
(a) Slug Feet.
(b) Birdy.
(c) Man Boobs.
(d) Pudgy.

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

5. What does Morey realize was one of his big mistakes with the unsuccessful player his model chose in 2008?
(a) The player had a serious previous injury.
(b) The player had cheated.
(c) The player was too old.
(d) The player did not do well in college.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which institution did Kahneman return to in 1967?

2. What used to cause Kahneman a great deal of shame as a boy in the early 1940s?

3. Why does Morey choose to ban nicknames from use on the NBA team he manages?

4. What school of psychological thought was Kahneman most attracted to as a young man?

5. Which team did Stephan Curry play for?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 3, how did Tversky approach the idea of physical danger from the time he was a child?

3. What was Tversky's first impression of Ward Edwards, the professor he had come to Michigan to study under?

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

5. What is the common theme of the stories Lewis collects from Tversky's friends' and colleagues' recollections about him in Chapter 3?

6. What did Daryl Morey think was the best path to being able to pick draft players for an NBA team?

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

8. Why did Morey ban the giving out of nicknames at the Houston Rockets?

9. Why did Morey miss out on picking the very talented Jeremy Lin for the Houston Rockets team?

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

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