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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Amos Tversky's mother?
(a) Marcia Tversky.
(b) Anne Tversky.
(c) Genia Tversky.
(d) Barbara Tversky.

2. What did the Kahnemans do to pass as Christians while in hiding?
(a) Had crosses in their house.
(b) Went to church on Sundays.
(c) Carried rosaries.
(d) Wore crosses as jewelry.

3. In Chapter 4, which university did Tversky begin working at upon his return to Israel?
(a) University of Tel Aviv.
(b) Hebrew University.
(c) University of Jerusalem.
(d) Haifa University.

4. When did the Kahnemans leave Europe?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1945.

5. What illness did Kahneman's father suffer from?
(a) Multiple Sclerosis.
(b) Huntington's Disease.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) Lupus.

6. In Chapter 3, who was only 18 years old when he was identified by the Israeli army as leadership material?
(a) Marshall Minklestein.
(b) Amos Tversky.
(c) Danny Kahneman.
(d) Amnon Rapoport.

7. Where was Tversky briefly installed as a military governor?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) Tel Aviv.
(c) Haifa.
(d) Jericho.

8. What state did Tversky leave Kahneman's seminar in in Chapter 5 that was unusual for him?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Doubt.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Excitement.

9. In Chapter 4, what did Dalia Etzion say Kahneman had difficulty distinguishing between?
(a) A good person and a traitor.
(b) A waste of time and a worth-while pursuit.
(c) An efficient soldier and an inefficient one.
(d) A hope and a dream.

10. What was Tversky's favorite television drama?
(a) Night Court.
(b) Hill Street Blues.
(c) NYPD Blue.
(d) 21 Jump Street.

11. What company did Kahneman's father work for in the early 1940s?
(a) Gucci.
(b) Morrison Yorn.
(c) L'Oreal.
(d) Malcamay.

12. In 2007, which two players did Morey use his model to draft to great success?
(a) Aaron Brooks and Carl Landry.
(b) Carl Landry and Alan Iverson.
(c) Jeremy Lin and Carl Landry.
(d) Alan Iverson and Aaron Brooks.

13. Which of the following principals did Tversky set out to study/prove during his time in Michigan?
(a) The Halo Effect.
(b) Representativeness.
(c) Transitivity.
(d) Anchoring.

14. Which institution did Kahneman return to in 1967?
(a) Hebrew University.
(b) Marion College.
(c) Jerusalem University.
(d) Tel Aviv University.

15. Where was Kahneman's father imprisoned in 1941?
(a) Munich.
(b) Drancy.
(c) Bergan-Belsen.
(d) Auschwitz.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Morey think he wrongly passed on drafting Jeremy Lin?

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

3. What did Kahneman's personality test administered to Israeli army recruits reveal about the recruits?

4. Where did Tversky's family move to in 1950?

5. What was the only think Kahneman and his mother found in their Paris apartment after the war?

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