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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 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.

2. What branch of medicine deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other health factors?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Epidemiology.
(c) Biology.
(d) Psychiatry.

3. The author presents a sentence describing Jane losing her wallet in New York in Chapter 6. What word stood out the most for subjects given a recall test about the sentence?
(a) Lost.
(b) City.
(c) Pickpocket.
(d) Prevalent.

4. What is System 2 in charge of in terms of behavior?
(a) Impulse.
(b) Deception.
(c) Self-control.
(d) Emotion.

5. The average effort of System 2 is repeatedly compared with what?
(a) A race.
(b) A sprint.
(c) A crawl.
(d) A stroll.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The operations of System 2 have one feature in common. What is this feature?

3. According to the author, what is determined by the coherence of the best story you can tell by the evidence at hand?

4. Who is the intellectual leader of an association of scholars against the author's works who call themselves NDM's?

5. 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?

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