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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. Who did Singh tell Morey and his team were his two favorite basketball players?
(a) Jeremy Lin and Michael Jordan.
(b) Yao Ming and Shaquille O'Neal.
(c) Shaquille O'Neal and Michael Jordan.
(d) LeBron James and Yao Ming.

2. The belief in which of the following was the subject of Tversky's and Kahneman's early works?
(a) The law of small numbers.
(b) Regression to the mean.
(c) The Halo Effect.
(d) The power of music.

3. In the late 1960s, what did Kahneman help the Israeli army to do?
(a) Devise financial incentives to entice army recruits for service.
(b) Train fighter pilots better.
(c) Train spys.
(d) Devise menus for soldiers to minimize food waste.

4. What role did Tversky have when he first joined the Israeli army?
(a) Paratrooper.
(b) Spy.
(c) Tank driver.
(d) Sniper.

5. Lewis opens the book with a quote from which author?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Marshall.
(c) Keynes.
(d) Dickens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position did Tversky eventually rise to in the Israeli army?

2. Where was Tversky briefly installed as a military governor?

3. Where did the Kahnemans move after leaving Europe in the 1940s?

4. What did Tversky and Kahneman write that people's intuitive expectations are governed by in one of their early papers?

5. Which institution did Kahneman return to in 1967?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 2, what revolutionary work did Kahneman do for the Israeli army at a very young age?

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

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