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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 Redelmeier struggle with as a child?

2. Who was the psychology professor who thought Tversky's and Kahneman's early work would win a Nobel Prize in Economics?

3. What one question did Kenneth Arrow ask Tversky after his lecture in Chapter 10?

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

5. What feeling was regret closely linked to, according to Tversky's and Kahneman's research in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. In Chapter 6, what was a main feature of the way that Kahneman and Tversky worked together?

3. After the conflict in 1973, what topic did Tversky entice Kahneman to work with him on tackling?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think Lewis chooses to use sports - particularly experiences picking draft players in the NBA - as a common thread running through different parts of this book? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 2

How did Kahneman's collaboration with Tversky change the way Kahneman worked and lived - and vice versa? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your arguments.

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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