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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 one question did Kenneth Arrow ask Tversky after his lecture in Chapter 10?
(a) What is a gain?
(b) What is the difference between regret and envy?
(c) What can we apply from this lecture to the field of economics?
(d) What is a loss?

2. In Chapter 11, at what institution was Miles Shore the Bullard Professor of Psychiatry?
(a) Yale Medical School.
(b) Hebrew University Medical School.
(c) Harvard Medical School.
(d) Princeton Medical School.

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

4. Where did Tversky spend the 1970-71 academic year?
(a) Stanford University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Yale University.

5. What did the Israeli army mistakenly think was the result of superiors praising pilots?
(a) The superiors felt worse after praising the pilots.
(b) The pilots performed worse on their next flights because of the praise.
(c) There was no effect from the praise on the pilots' next flights.
(d) The pilots performed better on their next flights due to the praise.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Nobel prize-winner said that Tversky had a first-rate mind, which one could tell by listening to his lectures?

2. Who coauthored the first article Tversky ever wrote about medicine?

3. Where did Kahneman fly to meet Anne Treisman and declare her love for her in 1975?

4. What did Redelmeier struggle with as a child?

5. Once Tversky and Kahneman felt they had exhausted their research into judgment, what topic did they turn to?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 9, what is one practical change Kahneman suggested to the Israeli army based on the garbage he saw on the side of the road?

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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. After the conflict in 1973, what topic did Tversky entice Kahneman to work with him on tackling?

9. In Chapter 9, how does Lewis describe Kahneman's and Tversky's relationship?

10. In Chapter 10, what was Kenneth Arrow's one big question for Tversky when he lectured on decision-making theory?

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