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

2. Which Nobel prize-winner said that Tversky had a first-rate mind, which one could tell by listening to his lectures?
(a) Kenneth Arrow.
(b) Murray Gell-Mann.
(c) Marshall Mathers.
(d) Richard Feynman.

3. How did Paul Slovic describe Tversky's and Kahneman's way of collaborating?
(a) They communicated mostly through hand-written letters.
(b) They worked almost entirely over the phone.
(c) They talked to each other for hour after hour after hour.
(d) They worked almost entirely by email.

4. In Chapter 8, what was the hospital Donald Redelmeier worked at known for?
(a) Treating victims of car accidents.
(b) Treating heart attacks.
(c) Treating bone injuries.
(d) Treating mental health issues.

5. Where were the leaders in decision analysis clustered in the early 1970s?
(a) Oxford and Cambridge.
(b) The Sorbonne.
(c) Harvard Medical School.
(d) The Stanford Research Institute.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the title of Tversky's and Kahneman's first paper to describe how people formed judgments?

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

3. What did Tversky like to call good ideas?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what was Redelmeier's impression about the differences between working with Kahneman and Tversky?

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky find when he went to the Suez Canal at the end of the conflict in 1973?

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 6, what did Lew Goldberg's experiments into decision-making in medicine reveal?

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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