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

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

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

4. Why did Amnon Rapoport travel to North Carolina in 1961?
(a) He went to work on a painting project with a friend.
(b) He had a job interview there.
(c) He was assigned there by a Fulbright scholarship Committee.
(d) He had a family funeral there.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tversky and Kahneman write that people's intuitive expectations are governed by in one of their early papers?

2. Which British psychologist did Kahneman meet in the 1960s who he would later marry?

3. What role did Tversky have when he first joined the Israeli army?

4. In 2008, which player did Morey draft for his team who did not work out very well?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 2, how did Kahneman feel about each of his parents?

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

5. Why did Morey miss out on picking the very talented Jeremy Lin for the Houston Rockets team?

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

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

8. In Chapter 2, how was Kahneman's father saved when the Nazis took him away in November 1941?

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

10. In Chapter 2, what revolutionary work did Kahneman do for the Israeli army at a very young age?

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