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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 - 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the intellectual leader of an association of scholars against the author's works who call themselves NDM's?
(a) Gary Klein.
(b) Malcolm Gladwell.
(c) Baruch Fischhoff.
(d) Danny Oppenheimer.

2. With whom did Daniel Kahneman conduct a study on pupil dilation at the University of Michigan?
(a) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(b) Larry Jacoby.
(c) Jackson Beatty.
(d) Nassim Taleb.

3. What happened to bond prices on the day of Saddam Hussein's capture in Iraq?
(a) They stayed the same.
(b) They initially rose.
(c) The drastically dropped.
(d) They initially dropped.

4. In the presentation of the "character" of Tom W. in Chapter 14, what is the subject of the experiment asked to rate?
(a) How old Tom is.
(b) What job Tom has.
(c) At what age Tom gets married.
(d) What Tom's major is in college.

5. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the state of being out of keeping with the norm or inconsistent?
(a) Incongruity.
(b) Recognition.
(c) Articluation.
(d) Depletion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author describe seeing on a drive from New York to Princeton that surprised him and his wife in Chapter 6?

2. The author asserts in Chapter 1 that anything that occupies your working memory reduces what?

3. The average effort of System 2 is repeatedly compared with what?

4. The author conludes in Chapter 10 that humans pay more attention to the content of messages than to what?

5. In discussing the stock market, the author states that if all the assets in a market are correctly priced, it leaves no scope for cleverness but it also does what?

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