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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Chapters 9 - 11).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Paul Slovic describe Tversky's and Kahneman's way of collaborating?
(a) They talked to each other for hour after hour after hour.
(b) They communicated mostly through hand-written letters.
(c) They worked almost entirely over the phone.
(d) They worked almost entirely by email.

2. Where did Tversky and Kahneman first go during the war in 1973 in the field?
(a) Syria.
(b) Jordan.
(c) The Sinai.
(d) Tel Aviv.

3. Who coauthored the first article Tversky ever wrote about medicine?
(a) Danny Kahneman.
(b) Don Redelmeier.
(c) Hal Sox.
(d) Lew Goldberg.

4. In Oregon, where did Tversky and Kahneman find an office to work together in?
(a) A former Unitarian church.
(b) A former florist shop.
(c) A former post office.
(d) A former butcher shop.

5. In Chapter 11, at what institution was Miles Shore the Bullard Professor of Psychiatry?
(a) Yale Medical School.
(b) Princeton Medical School.
(c) Harvard Medical School.
(d) Hebrew University Medical School.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tversky like to do in the summer of 1970 as he talked through some ideas with friends?

2. What was Lew Goldberg's work known for addressing?

3. Where was Richard Thaler an assistant professor in 1975?

4. What did Tversky think most people paid an enormous price for?

5. What type of structure did researchers build to try to simulate the swaying at the top of the new World Trade Center?

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