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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. Which book did Lewis publish in 2003?
(a) Change is Hard.
(b) The Blind Side.
(c) Narwhals.
(d) Moneyball.

2. Which team did Morey do some consulting for when he was a young man?
(a) The Oakland Athletics.
(b) The Atlanta Braves.
(c) The Washington Nationals.
(d) The Boston Red Sox.

3. Who was the psychology professor who thought Tversky's and Kahneman's early work would win a Nobel Prize in Economics?
(a) Irv Biederman.
(b) Lew Goldberg.
(c) Irene Norris.
(d) Paul Volcker.

4. What was the title of Tversky's and Kahneman's first paper to describe how people formed judgments?
(a) Subjective Probability: A Judgment of Representativeness.
(b) Heuristics: A Primer.
(c) The March of Time in Eugene.
(d) Who Will Choose the Pickle?

5. What school of psychological thought was Kahneman most attracted to as a young man?
(a) Gesellschaft.
(b) Gemeinschaft.
(c) Gestalt.
(d) Keynesian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the original owner of the World Trade Center?

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

3. Where did Tversky spend the 1970-71 academic year?

4. What company did Kahneman's father work for in the early 1940s?

5. What used to cause Kahneman a great deal of shame as a boy in the early 1940s?

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