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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25 - 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Consider the following sentence from Chapter 19 where the author describes people who "knew well before it happened that the 2008 financial crisis was inevitable" (385). What objectionable word does the author point out in this sentence?
(a) Before.
(b) Crisis.
(c) Knew.
(d) Inevitable.

2. When did the Yom Kippur War break out?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1953.

3. What part of the brain has a primary role as its threat center?
(a) The amygdala.
(b) The cerebellum.
(c) The occipital lobe.
(d) The brainstem.

4. Who was the Nobel Prize-winning economist that proposed a theory where utility are attached to changes of wealth rather than to states of wealth?
(a) John Gottman.
(b) Richard Thaler.
(c) Harry Markowitz.
(d) Bruno Frey.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the author claim newspaper headlines do?

3. What is the conclusion of the paper "Trading is Hazardous to Your Health"?

4. What does the acronym WYSIATI stand for?

5. When the author demonstrates enlisting cognitive ease when writing, he gives two statements about Adolf Hitler. Which of these statements APPEARED to be the most legitimate?

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