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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Memory.
(b) Prediction.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) Causality.

2. The author gives an example in Chapter 10 wherein a large urn is filled with equal numbers of red and white marbles. A person takes four marbles from the urn, counts them, and returns them. The author asserts that the outcome of "two red and two white" marbles is how many times higher than the outcome of four red, or four white marbles?
(a) Three times more often.
(b) Nine times more often.
(c) Six times more often.
(d) Two times more often.

3. 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.

4. Who wrote Strumbling to Happiness?
(a) Danny Oppenheimer.
(b) Larry Jacoby.
(c) Daniel Gilbert.
(d) Shane Frederick.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When the author demonstrates enlisting cognitive ease when writing, he gives two statements about Adolf Hitler. Which of these statements APPEARED to be the most legitimate?

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

4. Who is declared by the author as the hero of the book in Chapter 1?

5. Who is the author's Princeton colleage that wrote "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"?

(see the answer key)

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