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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 Tversky's favorite television drama?
(a) Night Court.
(b) Hill Street Blues.
(c) NYPD Blue.
(d) 21 Jump Street.

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

3. In Chapter 5, how did Kahneman react to Tversky's lecture about Bayesian Theory?
(a) He agreed with everything Tversky had to say.
(b) He suggested he and Tversky start doing joint lectures.
(c) He suggested he and Tversky talk about writing reinforcements to the theory.
(d) He confronted and contradicted Tversky in real time.

4. What does Morey realize was one of his big mistakes with the unsuccessful player his model chose in 2008?
(a) The player was too old.
(b) The player had cheated.
(c) The player had a serious previous injury.
(d) The player did not do well in college.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did the War of Independence last?

2. What used to cause Kahneman a great deal of shame as a boy in the early 1940s?

3. What state did Tversky leave Kahneman's seminar in in Chapter 5 that was unusual for him?

4. What was the only think Kahneman and his mother found in their Paris apartment after the war?

5. Which psychologist's work prompted Tversky to travel to Michigan to study?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In Chapter 2, how did Kahneman feel about each of his parents?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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