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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 9, which of the following does Lewis say was never far from Tversky's and Kahneman's minds or conversations?
(a) Old grudges.
(b) Romance and fame.
(c) Their children.
(d) War and politics.

2. What book did Richard Thaler's father ask him to copy lines from when he was a child?
(a) The Jungle.
(b) A Tale of Two Cities.
(c) The Chariots of Fire.
(d) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

3. In Chapter 11, at what institution was Miles Shore the Bullard Professor of Psychiatry?
(a) Yale Medical School.
(b) Princeton Medical School.
(c) Hebrew University Medical School.
(d) Harvard Medical School.

4. What was Goldberg's paper about medical judgement that Lewis mentions in Chapter 6 titled?
(a) The Judgement Papers.
(b) The Expert Fallacy.
(c) Miracles of Misadventures in Medicine.
(d) Man versus Model of Man.

5. Which of the following was a problem for Kahneman and Tversky in their investigations of biases and heuristics?
(a) They did not have the physical stamina to complete their research.
(b) They did not have the funding to complete their research.
(c) They did not have the time to complete their research.
(d) They did not have the intellectual tools to understand what they were finding.

6. What did Tversky and Kahneman begin to realize that people were often doing rather than making random mistakes when they formed judgments?
(a) Making mistakes based on misperception of color.
(b) Making mistakes based on money.
(c) Doing something systematically wrong.
(d) Doing something fundamental to their survival.

7. What did Redelmeier's experiment measuring the so-called "peak-end rule" involve?
(a) Colonoscopies.
(b) Optical exams.
(c) Bone breakages.
(d) Blood tests.

8. Where did Tversky travel to as the cease-fire took hold?
(a) The Sinai.
(b) Tel Aviv.
(c) The Suez Canal area.
(d) Moscow.

9. What one question did Kenneth Arrow ask Tversky after his lecture in Chapter 10?
(a) What is a gain?
(b) What is the difference between regret and envy?
(c) What can we apply from this lecture to the field of economics?
(d) What is a loss?

10. What did Kahneman determine was the real reason for the change in pilots' performance after praise or criticism?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Regression to the mean.
(c) Insecurity.
(d) Financial hardship.

11. Where was Richard Thaler an assistant professor in 1975?
(a) Stanford University.
(b) University of Chicago.
(c) University of Rochester.
(d) Harvard University.

12. What did Redelmeier think was odd, in hindsight, about his relationships with Tversky and Kahneman?
(a) How each man did his best work while playing basketball and discussing their ideas at the same time.
(b) How little he knew about each man's educational background.
(c) How little he knew about each man's life.
(d) How strange it was that neither man had invited him to travel to Israel.

13. What did Tversky like to do in the summer of 1970 as he talked through some ideas with friends?
(a) Shoot baskets.
(b) Play hockey.
(c) Play soccer.
(d) Play video games.

14. What was Lew Goldberg's work known for addressing?
(a) The idea that being cold makes one more likely to participate in violent acts.
(b) The idea that people's consumer habits are influenced heavily by colors.
(c) The idea that expert judgments could be less reliable than algorithms.
(d) The idea that being hungry makes one buy more when grocery shopping.

15. In Chapter 9, what did Kahneman say people needed in order to make a decision rather than a number?
(a) A heart.
(b) A story.
(c) A soul.
(d) A conscience.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which theorist had offered an alternative to utility theory in the 1950s?

2. Where did Kahneman fly to meet Anne Treisman and declare her love for her in 1975?

3. What did both Tversky and Kahneman sense regarding their joint work during their year in Eugene?

4. In Oregon, where did Tversky and Kahneman find an office to work together in?

5. What theory did J. Allan Hobson refute effectively in his own research?

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