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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. Once Tversky and Kahneman felt they had exhausted their research into judgment, what topic did they turn to?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Decision-making.
(d) Fear.

2. What did one Hebrew University official say to Tversky about him leaving Israel for the United States?
(a) It would be a betrayal.
(b) It would be a coup.
(c) It would be a war crime.
(d) It would be a national tragedy.

3. What did Redelmeier's experiment measuring the so-called "peak-end rule" involve?
(a) Optical exams.
(b) Blood tests.
(c) Bone breakages.
(d) Colonoscopies.

4. Who served as the middleman in the negotiations between Israel and Syria in 1974?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Bill Mitchell.
(c) Henry Kissinger.
(d) Bill Clinton.

5. What did Kahneman and Tversky discover about the soldiers' reasons for fighting?
(a) They were fighting to avoid another fascist regime.
(b) They were fighting because of their hatred of the Russians.
(c) They were fighting for friends and families.
(d) They were fighting for Zionism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the engineer for the World Trade Center project?

2. What did the Israeli army mistakenly think was the result of superiors praising pilots?

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

4. Where did Tversky and Kahneman first go during the war in 1973 in the field?

5. In Chapter 6, who persuaded the National Science Foundation to allocate $60,000 to him for a behavioral science research center?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky and Khaneman uncover about a main motivating factor in the decision-making process?

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

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

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

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