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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 was Kahneman's father released from the Nazi prison camp after six weeks?
(a) His wife lobbied for his safe return.
(b) His child begged for his release.
(c) His employer, Eugene Schueller, asked for his release.
(d) He had connections in the French government.

2. Which book had a big influence on Daryl Morey when he was a teenager?
(a) The Marshall Plan.
(b) Moneyball.
(c) The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract.
(d) Narwhals.

3. What was Tversky's favorite television drama?
(a) Hill Street Blues.
(b) NYPD Blue.
(c) Night Court.
(d) 21 Jump Street.

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

5. Where did Daryl Morey go to college?
(a) Loyola.
(b) Northwestern University.
(c) Harvard.
(d) University of Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Kahneman's rule for getting fighter pilots to remember instructions?

2. Which two areas did aptitude tests reveal that Kahneman was equally suited to excel in?

3. Which very large player does Morey's team meet in 2015 as a potential draft pick?

4. In Chapter 4, what did Kahneman say was necessary to study if one was interested in studying memory?

5. Which of the following principals did Tversky set out to study/prove during his time in Michigan?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Which book did Lewis publish in 2003 and what was it about?

6. In Chapter 3, for what action did Tversky receive the Israeli army's highest honor?

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

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

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

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

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