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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 hypothetical problem was a classic example of a framing issue?
(a) The Blue Ocean Rant.
(b) The Fleishman Problem.
(c) The Asian Disease Problem.
(d) The Kobayashi Maru.

2. Where did Tversky and Kahneman first go during the war in 1973 in the field?
(a) Tel Aviv.
(b) Jordan.
(c) Syria.
(d) The Sinai.

3. What did Redelmeier think was odd, in hindsight, about his relationships with Tversky and Kahneman?
(a) How little he knew about each man's life.
(b) How each man did his best work while playing basketball and discussing their ideas at the same time.
(c) How strange it was that neither man had invited him to travel to Israel.
(d) How little he knew about each man's educational background.

4. What kind of audience did Tversky and Kahneman have in mind when they wrote their first papers together?
(a) Their family and friends.
(b) Economists.
(c) No particular audience.
(d) World leaders.

5. What did Redelmeier say Kahneman was more likely to see in his own work than Tversky was able to see in his own work?
(a) How it could be applied in the real world.
(b) What was wrong with it.
(c) How much money it would generate for the different universities.
(d) How others would likely criticize it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of opinion did Tversky have about historians and history books?

2. What book did Richard Thaler's father ask him to copy lines from when he was a child?

3. Who was the head of the Israeli military psychology?

4. What subject was Kahneman running experiments on in his Berkeley lab by the time he met Redelmeier?

5. Where did Tversky spend the 1970-71 academic year?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 6, what was a main feature of the way that Kahneman and Tversky worked together?

2. In Chapter 7, what mathematical principle did Kahneman find was responsible for pilots' performance after praise or criticism?

3. In Chapter 11, what did Kahneman tell Miles Shore about one of his biggest difficulties with Tversky?

4. In Chapter 9, what does Kahneman identify as a central component of the experience of misery?

5. In Chapter 6, how does Lewis describe heuristics?

6. In Chapter 10, what habit did Richard Thaler have when he played board games as a child and what did this indicate about his personality?

7. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky and Kahneman find out about soldiers' motivations for fighting?

8. In Chapter 8, what is one reason Redelmeier suspected Tversky seemed to have so much time to work with him on ideas and papers?

9. In Chapter 9, what was one event that made Kahneman lose faith in his and Tversky's research to change minds at a high level?

10. In Chapter 7, why did Kahneman's and Tverksy's theories upset historians so much?

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