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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. How long did the War of Independence last?
(a) Ten months.
(b) Five years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Six months.
2. Which team did Stephan Curry play for?
(a) The L.A. Lakers.
(b) The Golden State Warriors.
(c) The Miami Heat.
(d) The Houston Rockets.
3. The belief in which of the following was the subject of Tversky's and Kahneman's early works?
(a) Regression to the mean.
(b) The power of music.
(c) The law of small numbers.
(d) The Halo Effect.
4. Which of the following books did Kahneman like as a boy?
(a) War and Peace.
(b) Lolita.
(c) A Christmas Carol.
(d) Around the World in Eighty Days.
5. Who did Amos Tversky dedicate his PhD dissertation to?
(a) His father.
(b) Danny Kahneman.
(c) His wife, Barbara.
(d) His mother.
Short Answer Questions
1. What school of psychological thought was Kahneman most attracted to as a young man?
2. In Chapter 2, what does Lewis identify as the most curious of Danny Kahneman's personal doubts?
3. What was Kahneman's rule for getting fighter pilots to remember instructions?
4. In Chapter 4, what did Dalia Etzion say Kahneman had difficulty distinguishing between?
5. Why does Morey think he wrongly passed on drafting Jeremy Lin?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Morey miss out on picking the very talented Jeremy Lin for the Houston Rockets team?
2. What was Danny Kahneman particularly known for as a lecturer?
3. In Chapter 5, how did Kahneman react to Tversky's lecture to his own students about Ward Edwards' work on Bayesian Theory?
4. In Chapter 2, how did Kahneman feel about each of his parents?
5. In Chapter 2, what revolutionary work did Kahneman do for the Israeli army at a very young age?
6. In 2007, what was the problem with the talented basketball player Sean Williams?
7. In Chapter 3, what general approach did Tverksy take to social science during his years in Michigan?
8. In Chapter 3, what was Amnon Rapoport's first impression of Amos Tversky?
9. What is the common theme of the stories Lewis collects from Tversky's friends' and colleagues' recollections about him in Chapter 3?
10. What event did Amos Tversky participate in in the late 1960s that drew him back into armed conflict?
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