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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Amos Tversky, Tom Gilovich, and Robert Vallone conducted a study of misperceptions and randomness in what sport?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Tennis.
(c) Football.
(d) Soccer.

2. 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) Prediction.
(b) Memory.
(c) Causality.
(d) Consciousness.

3. What is a reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods?
(a) Frequent repetition.
(b) Nodding.
(c) Standing boldly with arms crossed.
(d) Looking to the left.

4. What image is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate in the reader thinking in automatic mode?
(a) An angry woman.
(b) A smiling woman.
(c) A smiling man.
(d) A beach.

5. Based on the law of least effort, the author concludes that what characteristic is built deep into our nature?
(a) Heroism.
(b) Bitterness.
(c) Gratitude.
(d) Laziness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the first joint article written by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky?

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

3. When did Kahneman publish Attention and Effort?

4. Who created the Cognitive Reflection Test that involves the bat-and-ball problem along with two others?

5. What occurs when people consider a particular value for an unknown quantity before estimating that quantity?

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