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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 - 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what college did Kahneman and Tversky derive their subjects for their wheel of fortune study?
(a) The University of Oregon.
(b) Berkeley University.
(c) The University of Las Vegas.
(d) Yale University.

2. Who is the author's Princeton colleage that wrote "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Shane Frederick.
(c) Daniel Gilbert.
(d) Danny Oppenheimer.

3. The author gives an example in Chapter 10 wherein a large urn is filled with equal numbers of red and white marbles. A person takes four marbles from the urn, counts them, and returns them. The author asserts that the outcome of "two red and two white" marbles is how many times higher than the outcome of four red, or four white marbles?
(a) Six times more often.
(b) Nine times more often.
(c) Three times more often.
(d) Two times more often.

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

5. Extreme predictions and willingness to predict events from weak evidence are manifestations of what?
(a) System 1.
(b) Arrogance.
(c) System 2.
(d) Confidence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate slow thinking?

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

3. What does the author describe seeing on a drive from New York to Princeton that surprised him and his wife in Chapter 6?

4. What are the subjects in the gorilla study instructed to count in the short film?

5. Who used a method to test intentional causality by making a film in 1944 that involved a circle and two triangles?

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