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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 hypothetical problem was a classic example of a framing issue?
(a) The Fleishman Problem.
(b) The Kobayashi Maru.
(c) The Blue Ocean Rant.
(d) The Asian Disease Problem.

2. Which institution did Kahneman return to in 1967?
(a) Marion College.
(b) Hebrew University.
(c) Tel Aviv University.
(d) Jerusalem University.

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

4. What does Lewis say that Kahneman's volatility was for Danny?
(a) A strength.
(b) Both a weakness and a strenth.
(c) A weakness.
(d) A wrench in his career.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The belief in which of the following was the subject of Tversky's and Kahneman's early works?

2. What did Tversky think he originally might want to become?

3. What did Tversky like to call good ideas?

4. Where was Redelmeier accepted as a resident in 1985?

5. What did people treat all remote probabilities as, according to Tversky's and Kahneman's findings?

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