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

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

3. In Chapter 4, when did Tversky return to Israel after studying in Michigan?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1964.

4. Who was Amos Tversky's mother?
(a) Barbara Tversky.
(b) Genia Tversky.
(c) Anne Tversky.
(d) Marcia Tversky.

5. In Chapter 4, what did Kahneman say was necessary to study if one was interested in studying memory?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Forgetting.
(c) Endorphins.
(d) Emotions.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Kahnemans leave Europe?

2. Who did Amos Tversky stand beside in the line for the entrance tests to be admitted to Hebrew University's psychology program?

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

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

5. The belief in which of the following was the subject of Tversky's and Kahneman's early works?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In Chapter 2, what did Shimon Shamir recall about Kahneman from their school days?

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

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

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

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

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