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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What illness did Kahneman's father suffer from?
(a) Huntington's Disease.
(b) Diabetes.
(c) Multiple Sclerosis.
(d) Lupus.
2. Lewis opens the book with a quote from which author?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Dickens.
(c) Keynes.
(d) Marshall.
3. In Chapter 4, what did Kahneman say was necessary to study if one was interested in studying memory?
(a) Forgetting.
(b) Endorphins.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Emotions.
4. Why does Morey ultimately pass on drafting Satnam Singh?
(a) Singh is too old.
(b) He has no real data on Singh.
(c) Singh is too young.
(d) Singh is too volatile.
5. What was Kahneman's rule for getting fighter pilots to remember instructions?
(a) The Rule of Fourths.
(b) The Magical Number Nine.
(c) The Magical Number Seven.
(d) The Rule of Threes.
6. Where did Tversky's family move to in 1950?
(a) Rome.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) Haifa.
(d) Tel Aviv.
7. Which book had a big influence on Daryl Morey when he was a teenager?
(a) The Marshall Plan.
(b) Moneyball.
(c) Narwhals.
(d) The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract.
8. What did Tversky think he originally might want to become?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A poet or literary critic.
(c) A doctor.
(d) An accountant.
9. What did many people who knew Tversky remember most about him?
(a) His physical presence, as he was a large man.
(b) His story-telling ability and great intelligence.
(c) His sonorous voice.
(d) His cooking skills.
10. When did Kahneman and Tversky solidify their working collaboration by?
(a) Winter 1964.
(b) Summer 1960.
(c) Fall 1969.
(d) Spring 1963.
11. What was all that Daryl Morey wanted to do in life as a young man?
(a) Become a day trader on Wall Street.
(b) Design tall buildings.
(c) Become a businessman.
(d) Build winning sports teams.
12. In Chapter 4, which university did Tversky begin working at upon his return to Israel?
(a) Hebrew University.
(b) Haifa University.
(c) University of Jerusalem.
(d) University of Tel Aviv.
13. In Chapter 4, what did Dalia Etzion say Kahneman had difficulty distinguishing between?
(a) A hope and a dream.
(b) An efficient soldier and an inefficient one.
(c) A good person and a traitor.
(d) A waste of time and a worth-while pursuit.
14. What does Lewis say that Kahneman's volatility was for Danny?
(a) Both a weakness and a strenth.
(b) A wrench in his career.
(c) A weakness.
(d) A strength.
15. 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) Shaquille O'Neal and Michael Jordan.
(d) Jeremy Lin and Michael Jordan.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did the Kahnemans leave Europe?
2. Which book did Lewis publish in 2003?
3. In Chapter 4, when did Tversky return to Israel after studying in Michigan?
4. What used to cause Kahneman a great deal of shame as a boy in the early 1940s?
5. Who was Amos Tversky's mother?
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