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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Chapters 3 - 5).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Ward Edwards fired from before he moved to Michigan?
(a) Stanford University.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) Johns Hopkins University.
(d) Northwestern University.

2. Why did Amnon Rapoport travel to North Carolina in 1961?
(a) He went to work on a painting project with a friend.
(b) He was assigned there by a Fulbright scholarship Committee.
(c) He had a job interview there.
(d) He had a family funeral there.

3. Which book had a big influence on Daryl Morey when he was a teenager?
(a) Moneyball.
(b) Narwhals.
(c) The Marshall Plan.
(d) The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract.

4. Why was Kahneman's father released from the Nazi prison camp after six weeks?
(a) He had connections in the French government.
(b) His child begged for his release.
(c) His wife lobbied for his safe return.
(d) His employer, Eugene Schueller, asked for his release.

5. What did Tversky and Kahneman write that people's intuitive expectations are governed by in one of their early papers?
(a) Hunger.
(b) A consistent misperception of the world.
(c) Love.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Daryl Morey go to college?

2. When did Kahneman and Tversky solidify their working collaboration by?

3. How much older than he was Amos Tversky's sister?

4. Which of the following principals did Tversky set out to study/prove during his time in Michigan?

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

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