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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 and Kahneman write that people's intuitive expectations are governed by in one of their early papers?
(a) Hunger.
(b) A consistent misperception of the world.
(c) Fear.
(d) Love.

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

3. Which team did Stephan Curry play for?
(a) The Miami Heat.
(b) The Houston Rockets.
(c) The L.A. Lakers.
(d) The Golden State Warriors.

4. Which fellow student did Tversky have an intense relationship with in school?
(a) Marsha Mathers.
(b) Bennie Mitchell.
(c) Julie Sheinbaum.
(d) Dahlia Ravikovitch.

5. Which book did Lewis publish in 2003?
(a) The Blind Side.
(b) Narwhals.
(c) Moneyball.
(d) Change is Hard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which book had a big influence on Daryl Morey when he was a teenager?

2. Where did Daryl Morey go to college?

3. Where was Kahneman's father imprisoned in 1941?

4. Who was Kahneman's first real friend?

5. Which team did Morey do some consulting for when he was a young man?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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