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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. What kind of opinion did Tversky have about historians and history books?
(a) Tversky thought much of what was in history books was fiction created by the authors.
(b) Tversky had great respect for historians.
(c) Tversky thought historians needed to work more closely with fiction writers to make their writing more interesting.
(d) Tversky thought historians needed to work more closely with economists.

2. What did Amos Tversky's father do for a living?
(a) Professor.
(b) Veterinarian.
(c) Accountant.
(d) Lawyer.

3. Which Israeli general spoke to Tversky's high school class during Tversky's senior year?
(a) Shimon Perez.
(b) Yuri Gurt.
(c) Moshe Dayan.
(d) Benjamin Netanyahu.

4. Who did Amos Tversky dedicate his PhD dissertation to?
(a) His wife, Barbara.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) Danny Kahneman.

5. What theory did J. Allan Hobson refute effectively in his own research?
(a) The Freudian idea that dreams arose from unconscious desires.
(b) Game theory.
(c) The theory of regret in relation to gains.
(d) The Keynesian theory of economics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Tversky's family move to in 1950?

2. What did Redelmeier struggle with as a child?

3. Which of the following was a problem for Kahneman and Tversky in their investigations of biases and heuristics?

4. In Chapter 11, at what institution was Miles Shore the Bullard Professor of Psychiatry?

5. What did Tversky and Kahneman write that people's intuitive expectations are governed by in one of their early papers?

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