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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) Avoiding mild embarrassment.
(d) Bearing grudges.

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

3. What did many people who knew Tversky remember most about him?
(a) His story-telling ability and great intelligence.
(b) His sonorous voice.
(c) His physical presence, as he was a large man.
(d) His cooking skills.

4. Where were the leaders in decision analysis clustered in the early 1970s?
(a) Harvard Medical School.
(b) The Stanford Research Institute.
(c) Oxford and Cambridge.
(d) The Sorbonne.

5. What was all that Daryl Morey wanted to do in life as a young man?
(a) Become a businessman.
(b) Build winning sports teams.
(c) Design tall buildings.
(d) Become a day trader on Wall Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the engineer for the World Trade Center project?

2. Where was Ward Edwards fired from before he moved to Michigan?

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

4. Why were governments reluctant to seeding hurricanes?

5. Which fellow student did Tversky have an intense relationship with in school?

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