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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 does the author suggest when quoting sources in persuasive writing?
(a) Using sources that can easily be verified.
(b) Using sources that are celebrities.
(c) Using sources that are from other countries.
(d) Using names that are easy to pronounce.

2. Who introduced the labels System 1 and System 2 as systems of the mind?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Nassim Taleb.
(c) Keith Stanovich and Richard West.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

3. What do we lose touch with when we are uncomfortable or unhappy?
(a) Admiration.
(b) Recognition.
(c) Articulation.
(d) Intuition.

4. Who is declared by the author as the hero of the book in Chapter 1?
(a) System 2.
(b) The conscience.
(c) System 1.
(d) The ego.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of The Black Swan?

2. What illusion is posed by the author in Chapter 6 when he asks about how many animals were brought upon the ark?

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?

4. Where was Albert Michotte from?

5. What does the author claim newspaper headlines do?

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