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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Chapters 6 - 8).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Tversky think most people paid an enormous price for?
(a) Financial security.
(b) Love.
(c) Bearing grudges.
(d) Avoiding mild embarrassment.

2. What kind of audience did Tversky and Kahneman have in mind when they wrote their first papers together?
(a) World leaders.
(b) No particular audience.
(c) Their family and friends.
(d) Economists.

3. What did Kahneman determine was the real reason for the change in pilots' performance after praise or criticism?
(a) Regression to the mean.
(b) Insecurity.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Financial hardship.

4. What illness did Kahneman's father suffer from?
(a) Lupus.
(b) Multiple Sclerosis.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) Huntington's Disease.

5. Who was the engineer for the World Trade Center project?
(a) Rachel Adams.
(b) Marcus Samuelson.
(c) Thomas Colhard.
(d) Les Robertson.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, where did Donald Redelmeier work?

2. What position did Tversky eventually rise to in the Israeli army?

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

4. In Chapter 4, what did Dalia Etzion say Kahneman had difficulty distinguishing between?

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

(see the answer key)

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