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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 was Kahneman's rule for getting fighter pilots to remember instructions?
(a) The Rule of Fourths.
(b) The Rule of Threes.
(c) The Magical Number Nine.
(d) The Magical Number Seven.

2. Why did Amnon Rapoport travel to North Carolina in 1961?
(a) He had a job interview there.
(b) He was assigned there by a Fulbright scholarship Committee.
(c) He had a family funeral there.
(d) He went to work on a painting project with a friend.

3. Who was Kahneman's first real friend?
(a) Effie Finklestein.
(b) Maisie Barber.
(c) Shimon Shamir.
(d) Ella Peron.

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

5. How long did the War of Independence last?
(a) Five years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Ten months.
(d) Six months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Kahnemans do to pass as Christians while in hiding?

2. Why was Kahneman's father released from the Nazi prison camp after six weeks?

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

4. When did Kahneman and Tversky solidify their working collaboration by?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What was Danny Kahneman particularly known for as a lecturer?

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

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

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