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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 12 - Coda).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of Tversky's former teachers publicly criticized his and Kahneman's work in the 1980s?
(a) Lew Goldberg.
(b) Donald Redelmeier.
(c) Miles Shore.
(d) Ward Edwards.

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

3. What did Kahneman and Tversky discover about the soldiers' reasons for fighting?
(a) They were fighting to avoid another fascist regime.
(b) They were fighting for Zionism.
(c) They were fighting for friends and families.
(d) They were fighting because of their hatred of the Russians.

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

5. Who was in charge of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs that asked Kahneman for help in 1974?
(a) Benyamin Albaum.
(b) Zvi Lanir.
(c) Benny Shalit.
(d) Shimon Perez.

Short Answer Questions

1. What population did Redelmeier's 1991 experiment target?

2. What did the Israeli army mistakenly think was the result of superiors praising pilots?

3. Why were governments reluctant to seeding hurricanes?

4. Who did Amos Tversky stand beside in the line for the entrance tests to be admitted to Hebrew University's psychology program?

5. What did Tversky think most people paid an enormous price for?

(see the answer key)

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