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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who created the Remote Association Test to study creativity?
(a) Danny Oppenheimer.
(b) Shane Frederick.
(c) Daniel Gilbert.
(d) Samoff Mednick.

3. The author presents a sentence describing Jane losing her wallet in New York in Chapter 6. What word stood out the most for subjects given a recall test about the sentence?
(a) Lost.
(b) Pickpocket.
(c) Prevalent.
(d) City.

4. The average effort of System 2 is repeatedly compared with what?
(a) A crawl.
(b) A sprint.
(c) A race.
(d) A stroll.

5. 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 man with a gun.
(c) A gorilla.
(d) A naked woman.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With whom did Daniel Kahneman conduct a study on pupil dilation at the University of Michigan?

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

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

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

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