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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Kahneman and Tversky solidify their working collaboration by?

2. What did Tversky and Kahneman write that people's intuitive expectations are governed by in one of their early papers?

3. What did Amos Tversky's father do for a living?

4. What kind of class did Morey enroll in during his time at Harvard Business School?

5. What was the only think Kahneman and his mother found in their Paris apartment after the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which book did Lewis publish in 2003 and what was it about?

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

3. In Chapter 2, how was Kahneman's father saved when the Nazis took him away in November 1941?

4. What is the common theme of the stories Lewis collects from Tversky's friends' and colleagues' recollections about him in Chapter 3?

5. In 2007, what was the problem with the talented basketball player Sean Williams?

6. In Chapter 2, what did Shimon Shamir recall about Kahneman from their school days?

7. In Chapter 3, what general approach did Tverksy take to social science during his years in Michigan?

8. What was Tversky's first impression of Ward Edwards, the professor he had come to Michigan to study under?

9. In Chapter 5, how did Kahneman react to Tversky's lecture to his own students about Ward Edwards' work on Bayesian Theory?

10. In Chapter 2, what revolutionary work did Kahneman do for the Israeli army at a very young age?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 7, why is Kahneman's and Tversky's work on uncertainty so upsetting to some historians who came to hear Tversky's lectures? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

How does Lewis explain the phenomenon of others in the fields of psychology and economics trying particularly hard not only to refute Kahneman's and Tversky's work, but to almost humiliate the two men in the process? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your arguments.

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