View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What school of psychological thought was Kahneman most attracted to as a young man?

2. Which fellow student did Tversky have an intense relationship with in school?

3. Which team does Daryl Morey work for?

4. What was all that Daryl Morey wanted to do in life as a young man?

5. Why did Amnon Rapoport travel to North Carolina in 1961?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was ironic about some people's perception that Daryl Morey must be a know-it-all?

2. In Chapter 3, what was Amnon Rapoport's first impression of Amos Tversky?

3. In Chapter 3, for what action did Tversky receive the Israeli army's highest honor?

4. In Chapter 2, what did Kahneman's father tell him the night before he died?

5. What event did Amos Tversky participate in in the late 1960s that drew him back into armed conflict?

6. In Chapter 4, what did Kahneman say you had to study in order to study memory?

7. Why did Morey miss out on picking the very talented Jeremy Lin for the Houston Rockets team?

8. Who were some of Tversky's first subjects during his early experiments on decision-making?

9. What was Danny Kahneman particularly known for as a lecturer?

10. What did Daryl Morey think was the best path to being able to pick draft players for an NBA team?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 10, why do both Kahneman and Tversky move to America at the same time? How do their Israeli colleagues and friends react? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay discussing the meaning behind this book's title. What does "undoing" refer to?

Essay Topic 3

What role did the Israeli military play in both Tversky's and Kahneman's lives? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your conclusions.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 661 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample