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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 2008, which player did Morey draft for his team who did not work out very well?
(a) Alan Iverson.
(b) Joey Dorsey.
(c) Marco Rollins.
(d) Jeremy Lin.

2. In Chapter 2, what does Lewis identify as the most curious of Danny Kahneman's personal doubts?
(a) The ones he had about his finances.
(b) The ones he had about his own memory.
(c) The ones he had about his singing skills.
(d) The ones he had about his own intellectual talent.

3. Why does Morey ultimately pass on drafting Satnam Singh?
(a) Singh is too old.
(b) Singh is too young.
(c) He has no real data on Singh.
(d) Singh is too volatile.

4. In Chapter 4, what did Kahneman say was necessary to study if one was interested in studying memory?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Forgetting.
(d) Endorphins.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which team did Stephan Curry play for?

2. What used to cause Kahneman a great deal of shame as a boy in the early 1940s?

3. What was all that Daryl Morey wanted to do in life as a young man?

4. How much older than he was Amos Tversky's sister?

5. In the late 1960s, what did Kahneman help the Israeli army to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what was Amnon Rapoport's first impression of Amos Tversky?

2. In Chapter 4, what did Kahneman say you had to study in order to study memory?

3. What was Tversky's first impression of Ward Edwards, the professor he had come to Michigan to study under?

4. What was ironic about some people's perception that Daryl Morey must be a know-it-all?

5. In Chapter 3, what general approach did Tverksy take to social science during his years in Michigan?

6. What was Danny Kahneman particularly known for as a lecturer?

7. In Chapter 3, for what action did Tversky receive the Israeli army's highest honor?

8. In Chapter 3, how did Tversky approach the idea of physical danger from the time he was a child?

9. Which book did Lewis publish in 2003 and what was it about?

10. In Chapter 2, what did Kahneman's father tell him the night before he died?

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