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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 35 - 38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What illusion does the author demonstrate by presenting lines that appear to be different sizes but are in fact the same?
(a) The illusion of Narrative Fallacy.
(b) The Muller-Lyer illusion.
(c) The Executive Control illusion.
(d) The Anchoring illusion.

2. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the state of being out of keeping with the norm or inconsistent?
(a) Depletion.
(b) Incongruity.
(c) Articluation.
(d) Recognition.

3. The author compares the conscious mind with what in Chapter 5?
(a) A cemetery.
(b) A ship's mast.
(c) A cockpit.
(d) A ship's hull.

4. 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) Nine times more often.
(b) Six times more often.
(c) Three times more often.
(d) Two times more often.

5. Who wrote the 2005 book Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?
(a) Philip Tetlock.
(b) Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras.
(c) Baruch Fischhoff.
(d) Malcolm Gladwell.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term does the author apply to the idea that once you have accepted a theory and used it as a tool in your thinking, it is extremely difficult to notice its flaws?

3. What do causal base rates do?

4. Whose study on duration neglect and the peak-end rule involved a story of Jen, who died instantly in an automobile accident?

5. Who was concluded to achieve better investment results in "Boys Will Be Boys"?

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