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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. What did Tversky think most people paid an enormous price for?

2. What nickname did Houston radio personalities give to Daryl Morey when he first took over as general manager of the city's NBA team?

3. Which two areas did aptitude tests reveal that Kahneman was equally suited to excel in?

4. Which book had a big influence on Daryl Morey when he was a teenager?

5. Why does Morey choose to ban nicknames from use on the NBA team he manages?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 3, how did Tversky approach the idea of physical danger from the time he was a child?

10. In Chapter 2, how did Kahneman feel about each of his parents?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think Kahneman and Tversky, at one point, switched from focusing more on their research in academia and more on trying to reform the educational system from the early childhood years? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

What role did Tversky think the concept of similarity play in the process of decision-making, according to Tversky's beliefs and research? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Kahneman and Tversky both often told interviewers and others that they found it impossible to separate and distinguish which of the ideas in their collaborative works originated with whom. What change in their working circumstances and relationship led to a clearer distinction about whose ideas were whose? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your arguments.

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