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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 - 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What illusion is posed by the author in Chapter 6 when he asks about how many animals were brought upon the ark?
(a) The Noah Illusion.
(b) The Muller-Lyer illusion.The
(c) The Biblical Illusion.
(d) The Moses Illusion.

2. What psychologist described the pupil of the eye as a window to the soul in Scientific American?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Eckhard Hess.
(c) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(d) Nassim Taleb.

3. The author describes a phenomenon discovered by Roy Baumeister's team wherein an effort of will is tiring, and if you have to force yourself to do something, you are less able to exert self-control when the next challenge appears. What is this phenomenon named?
(a) Ego depletion.
(b) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(c) The Moses Illusion.
(d) An anchoring effect.

4. Who is the author of The Black Swan?
(a) Keith Stanovich.
(b) Nassim Taleb.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author suggest when quoting sources in persuasive writing?

2. Who created the Remote Association Test to study creativity?

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

4. The author notes that in the event that this book were made into a film, what role would System 2 play?

5. Who introduced the labels System 1 and System 2 as systems of the mind?

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