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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Chapters 9 - 11).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Redelmeier grow up?
(a) Tokyo.
(b) Toronto.
(c) Beijing.
(d) San Francisco.

2. In Chapter 5, how did Kahneman react to Tversky's lecture about Bayesian Theory?
(a) He suggested he and Tversky start doing joint lectures.
(b) He suggested he and Tversky talk about writing reinforcements to the theory.
(c) He agreed with everything Tversky had to say.
(d) He confronted and contradicted Tversky in real time.

3. What did Tversky hate but tolerate as a habit of Kahneman's?
(a) Playing checkers.
(b) Eating fish.
(c) Smoking.
(d) Taking walks.

4. 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) Subjective Probability: A Judgment of Representativeness.
(d) Heuristics: A Primer.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Amos Tversky dedicate his PhD dissertation to?

2. What was Goldberg's paper about medical judgement that Lewis mentions in Chapter 6 titled?

3. What did Kahneman determine was the real reason for the change in pilots' performance after praise or criticism?

4. Why did Amnon Rapoport travel to North Carolina in 1961?

5. Where was Richard Thaler an assistant professor in 1975?

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