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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. In 2008, which player did Morey draft for his team who did not work out very well?
(a) Joey Dorsey.
(b) Alan Iverson.
(c) Marco Rollins.
(d) Jeremy Lin.

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

3. Which very large player does Morey's team meet in 2015 as a potential draft pick?
(a) Satnam Singh.
(b) Morrel Lorely.
(c) Yao Ming.
(d) Jung Mao.

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

5. What is hindsight bias?
(a) People's tendency to like big numbers over small ones.
(b) People's tendency to look at an outcome and assume it was predictable all along.
(c) People's tendency to blame their family members after the fact of an event.
(d) People's tendency to think they know more than they do before an event.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the late 1960s, what did Kahneman help the Israeli army to do?

2. Lewis opens the book with a quote from which author?

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

4. Which of the following books did Kahneman like as a boy?

5. How did Tversky's classmates in Michigan remember him in his earliest days there?

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