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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30 - 34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the authors of Built to Last?
(a) Keith Stanovich and Richard West.
(b) Baruch Fischhoff and Gary Klein.
(c) Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras.
(d) Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.

2. What comparison does the author make between six-year-old boys and six-year-old girls in Chapter 10?
(a) Their kind behavior.
(b) Their mathematical skills.
(c) Their skills at geometry.
(d) Their average vocabulary.

3. In the experiment conducted at the University of Michigan by Richard Nisbett, how many of the 15 participants responded immediately to the stooge's plea for help?
(a) 13.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 9.

4. Who is the author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street?
(a) Burton Malkiel.
(b) Jim Collins.
(c) Baruch Fischhoff.
(d) Malcolm Gladwell.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What part of the brain has a primary role as its threat center?

3. Who discovered a named regression to the mean?

4. In the example where the author presents two candidates for a college professorship, which individual is described as recently completing her graduate work?

5. 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?

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