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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 - 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) At what age Tom gets married.
(c) What job Tom has.
(d) What Tom's major is in college.

2. What does the acronym WYSIATI stand for?
(a) What you seek is all there is.
(b) What you supply is all there is.
(c) What you see is all there is.
(d) What you satisfy is all there is.

3. When did Kahneman publish Attention and Effort?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1999.

4. Where was Albert Michotte from?
(a) Norway.
(b) France.
(c) Belgium.
(d) Sweden.

5. In one example provided for the reader, Kahneman instructs to draw one line, 2 1/2 inches from the bottom of a sheet of paper. On a second sheet, the subject is to draw a 2 1/5 line from the top. What are his observations regarding the lines?
(a) The line from the bottom will be more accurate.
(b) Both lines will be divergent but correct.
(c) The line from the top will be more accurate.
(d) Both lines will be equally accurate.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, the dynamics of what help explain the recurrent cycles of disaster, concern, and complacency that are familiar to students of large-scale emergencies?

2. What do we lose touch with when we are uncomfortable or unhappy?

3. What neighborhood within Niagara Falls, New York was the location of a 70-acre landfill that was the epicenter of a massive environmental disaster?

4. What illusion does the author demonstrate by presenting lines that appear to be different sizes but are in fact the same?

5. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the state of being out of keeping with the norm or inconsistent?

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