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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Two times more often.
(d) Three times more often.

2. In the example where the author presents two candidates for a college professorship, which choice is favored by intuition?
(a) Jane.
(b) Anne.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Kim.

3. Who created a study article called "Becoming Famous Overnight"?
(a) Jackson Beatty.
(b) Larry Jacoby.
(c) Eckhard Hess.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

4. In the aphorisms presented by the author in Chapter 5, what aphorisms were judged to be more insightful to study participants?
(a) The ones that do not rhyme.
(b) The ones that use large words.
(c) The ones that rhyme.
(d) The ones that are memorable.

5. What does the author claim the main function of System 1 is in Chapter 6?
(a) To categorize numbers and letters and find associations between them.
(b) To maintain and update a model for one's personal world.
(c) To grasp large concepts in relation to small concepts.
(d) To calculate difficult problems such as math equations.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the author of The Black Swan?

3. In the first description of the fictional Linda, Kahneman and Tversky said that she was how old?

4. The average effort of System 2 is repeatedly compared with what?

5. Extreme outcomes are much more likely to be observed under what conditions?

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