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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 did Tversky think he originally might want to become?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A doctor.
(c) An accountant.
(d) A poet or literary critic.

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

3. In Chapter 3, who was only 18 years old when he was identified by the Israeli army as leadership material?
(a) Amos Tversky.
(b) Marshall Minklestein.
(c) Danny Kahneman.
(d) Amnon Rapoport.

4. What position did Tversky eventually rise to in the Israeli army?
(a) Tank driver.
(b) Spy.
(c) General.
(d) Platoon commander.

5. Which psychologist's work prompted Tversky to travel to Michigan to study?
(a) Ward Edwards.
(b) Michael Bayes.
(c) Murray Gell-Mann.
(d) Danny Kahneman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname did Houston radio personalities give to Daryl Morey when he first took over as general manager of the city's NBA team?

2. Which book did Lewis publish in 2003?

3. Lewis opens the book with a quote from which author?

4. Where did Daryl Morey go to college?

5. What was Marc Gasol's nickname that blinded Morey and some others from seeing his true talent?

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. In Chapter 3, what was Amnon Rapoport's first impression of Amos Tversky?

4. In Chapter 2, what did Kahneman's father tell him the night before he died?

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

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 3, what general approach did Tverksy take to social science during his years in Michigan?

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

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