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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 did both Tversky and Kahneman sense regarding their joint work during their year in Eugene?
(a) A waning interest in their work.
(b) Less financial opportunities for both of them.
(c) Growing interest in their work.
(d) More financial opportunities for both of them.

2. What did Tversky like to call good ideas?
(a) Brownies.
(b) Gold nuggets.
(c) Raisins.
(d) Bonbons.

3. What type of structure did researchers build to try to simulate the swaying at the top of the new World Trade Center?
(a) A mechanical bull.
(b) A caster room.
(c) A sway room.
(d) A wind tunnel.

4. In Chapter 6, who persuaded the National Science Foundation to allocate $60,000 to him for a behavioral science research center?
(a) Paul Hoffman.
(b) Danny Kahneman.
(c) Marshall McLuhan.
(d) Amos Tversky.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kahneman and Tversky discover about the soldiers' reasons for fighting?

2. What did Tversky like to do in the summer of 1970 as he talked through some ideas with friends?

3. In Chapter 9, what does Lewis say Kahneman's and Tversky's relationship was like in every way other than sexually?

4. How did Kahneman change the way tank drivers were trained?

5. Where did Tversky travel to as the cease-fire took hold?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Kahneman and Tversky move to the United States at the same time in Chapter 10?

3. To whom did most economists usually write - Kahneman or Tversky - and why?

4. In Chapter 6, how did Kahneman say Tversky helped streamline his own thinking during the early years they worked together?

5. In 1973, why did Kahneman and Tversky rush home to Israel from the United States?

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

7. 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?

8. In Chapter 8, how did Tversky's and Kahneman's work influence Donald Redelmeier?

9. In Chapter 8, what did Kahneman predict about people's predictions about their own happiness?

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

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