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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What illusion is posed by the author in Chapter 6 when he asks about how many animals were brought upon the ark?
(a) The Muller-Lyer illusion.The
(b) The Moses Illusion.
(c) The Noah Illusion.
(d) The Biblical Illusion.

2. What term did Sunstein and Kuran invent for the mechanism through which biases flow into policy?
(a) The Moses Illusion.
(b) The availability cascade.
(c) An anchoring effect.
(d) Cognitive Pupillometry.

3. 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?
(a) Prediction.
(b) Memory.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) Causality.

4. Who is declared by the author as the hero of the book in Chapter 1?
(a) System 2.
(b) The conscience.
(c) The ego.
(d) System 1.

5. What psychologist described the pupil of the eye as a window to the soul in Scientific American?
(a) Eckhard Hess.
(b) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Nassim Taleb.

6. From what college did Kahneman and Tversky derive their subjects for their wheel of fortune study?
(a) The University of Oregon.
(b) Berkeley University.
(c) The University of Las Vegas.
(d) Yale University.

7. The author conludes in Chapter 10 that humans pay more attention to the content of messages than to what?
(a) Their causality.
(b) Information about their reliability.
(c) The statistics behind them.
(d) Information about their connection with self.

8. What do we lose touch with when we are uncomfortable or unhappy?
(a) Admiration.
(b) Intuition.
(c) Articulation.
(d) Recognition.

9. In the example where the author presents two candidates for a college professorship, which individual is described as recently completing her graduate work?
(a) Anne.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Kim.
(d) Mary.

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

11. The author notes that stereotyping is a negative word in our society. How does the author apply the word in his usage?
(a) Caustic.
(b) Neutral.
(c) Tragic.
(d) Positive.

12. What does the author describe seeing on a drive from New York to Princeton that surprised him and his wife in Chapter 6?
(a) A burning car.
(b) A naked woman.
(c) A man with a gun.
(d) A gorilla.

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

14. Whose experiment demonstrating a noncausal base rate when describing a group of students attending Yale?
(a) John List.
(b) Gary Klein.
(c) Christopher Hsee.
(d) Icek Ajzen.

15. In the conclusion of the study of availability bias conducted by Paul Slovic, Sarah Lichtenstein, and Baruch Fischoff, they deduced that estimates of causes of death are warped by what?
(a) The economy.
(b) Media coverage.
(c) Direct knowledge.
(d) Family history of illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate slow thinking?

2. The author describes a phenomenon discovered by Roy Baumeister's team wherein an effort of will is tiring, and if you have to force yourself to do something, you are less able to exert self-control when the next challenge appears. What is this phenomenon named?

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

4. Cognitive strain is defined by the author as being affected by both the current level of effort and what?

5. Who created a study article called "Becoming Famous Overnight"?

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