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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 word "flow" to describe the state of effortless attending?
(a) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(b) Nassim Taleb.
(c) William Feller.
(d) Larry Jacoby.

2. What happened to bond prices on the day of Saddam Hussein's capture in Iraq?
(a) They stayed the same.
(b) They initially dropped.
(c) They initially rose.
(d) The drastically dropped.

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

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

5. With whom did Daniel Kahneman conduct a study on pupil dilation at the University of Michigan?
(a) Jackson Beatty.
(b) Nassim Taleb.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods?

2. What term refers to the study of pupils in relation to the mind?

3. What image is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate in the reader thinking in automatic mode?

4. The author provides an excerpt related to "norm theory" that comes from an essay he had written with what psychologist?

5. Where was Albert Michotte from?

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