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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author notes that in the event that this book were made into a film, what role would System 2 play?
(a) A minor character that knows it is a minor character.
(b) A supporting character that believes he is the hero.
(c) A leading role while thinking he is a background character.
(d) A diva and backstabber.

2. What does the author describe seeing on a drive from New York to Princeton that surprised him and his wife in Chapter 6?
(a) A burning car.
(b) A gorilla.
(c) A naked woman.
(d) A man with a gun.

3. In the statistics presented by the author in the opening of Chapter 10, he states that instances of what disease are less prevalent in rural, sparsely populated counties largely in the Midwest, South, and the West?
(a) Uterine cancer.
(b) Kidney cancer.
(c) AIDS.
(d) Tuberculosis.

4. What is System 2 in charge of in terms of behavior?
(a) Impulse.
(b) Deception.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Self-control.

5. Who used a method to test intentional causality by making a film in 1944 that involved a circle and two triangles?
(a) Shane Frederick.
(b) Daniel Gilbert.
(c) Fritz Heider and Mary-Ann Simmel.
(d) Danny Oppenheimer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to bond prices on the day of Saddam Hussein's capture in Iraq?

2. Based on the law of least effort, the author concludes that what characteristic is built deep into our nature?

3. The operations of System 2 have one feature in common. What is this feature?

4. Who introduced the word "flow" to describe the state of effortless attending?

5. 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?

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