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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. Where did Redelmeier grow up?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Beijing.
(c) Toronto.
(d) Tokyo.

2. In Chapter 9, why was Tversky worried about where Kahneman was sleeping?
(a) He thought Kahneman might contract pneumonia.
(b) He thought Kahneman might get hit by a sniper's bullet.
(c) He thought it was too near a tank and Kahneman night be crushed.
(d) He thought Kahneman would be a target for abuse from other soldiers.

3. Which of the following did Tversky and Kahneman find that people overwhelmingly chose in gambling simulations?
(a) A large amount of money over a small amount of money.
(b) A sure smaller gain over a possible larger gain.
(c) A sure loss over a sure gain.
(d) A loss for a friend over a loss for oneself.

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

5. To whom did Tversky write to explain his reasoning for staying in the United States?
(a) Marcus Samuel.
(b) Gidon Czapski.
(c) Mitchell Rodeon.
(d) Robert Scheinbaum.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of audience did Tversky and Kahneman have in mind when they wrote their first papers together?

2. In Chapter 8, what was the hospital Donald Redelmeier worked at known for?

3. What was the prevailing theory of decision-making called when Tversky and Kahneman began researching it?

4. In Chapter 9, what did Kahneman say people needed in order to make a decision rather than a number?

5. What did Kahneman determine was the real reason for the change in pilots' performance after praise or criticism?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 9, how does Lewis describe Kahneman's and Tversky's relationship?

2. After the conflict in 1973, what topic did Tversky entice Kahneman to work with him on tackling?

3. In 1973, why did Kahneman and Tversky rush home to Israel from the United States?

4. In Chapter 6, what surprised researchers about people's reactions to the motion in a room that simulated a swaying skyscraper?

5. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky find when he went to the Suez Canal at the end of the conflict in 1973?

6. In Chapter 6, how does Lewis describe heuristics?

7. In Chapter 9, what was one event that made Kahneman lose faith in his and Tversky's research to change minds at a high level?

8. In Chapter 10, what was Kenneth Arrow's one big question for Tversky when he lectured on decision-making theory?

9. In Chapter 6, what did Lew Goldberg's experiments into decision-making in medicine reveal?

10. In Chapter 7, why did Kahneman's and Tverksy's theories upset historians so much?

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