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

2. Who did Singh tell Morey and his team were his two favorite basketball players?
(a) LeBron James and Yao Ming.
(b) Yao Ming and Shaquille O'Neal.
(c) Jeremy Lin and Michael Jordan.
(d) Shaquille O'Neal and Michael Jordan.

3. What school of psychological thought was Kahneman most attracted to as a young man?
(a) Gemeinschaft.
(b) Gesellschaft.
(c) Gestalt.
(d) Keynesian.

4. When did Kahneman and Tversky solidify their working collaboration by?
(a) Summer 1960.
(b) Fall 1969.
(c) Winter 1964.
(d) Spring 1963.

5. What type of structure did researchers build to try to simulate the swaying at the top of the new World Trade Center?
(a) A sway room.
(b) A mechanical bull.
(c) A caster room.
(d) A wind tunnel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of professional does Morey often hire who always seem to disappoint him?

2. Where did Tversky and Kahneman first go during the war in 1973 in the field?

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

4. In Chapter 8, what was the hospital Donald Redelmeier worked at known for?

5. In Chapter 12, what did Kahneman start to realize about Tversky's work once he and Tversky stopped working together so closely?

(see the answer key)

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