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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 Tversky and Kahneman first go during the war in 1973 in the field?
(a) Tel Aviv.
(b) Syria.
(c) Jordan.
(d) The Sinai.

2. What did Tversky and Kahneman spend the academic year 1970 - 71 doing?
(a) Researching questionnaire methods.
(b) Gathering grant money.
(c) Writing separate books.
(d) Collecting data.

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

4. Where was Redelmeier accepted as a resident in 1985?
(a) Thomas Jefferson University.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Stanford.

5. Where did Tversky spend the 1970-71 academic year?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Stanford University.
(d) Princeton University.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was a problem for Kahneman and Tversky in their investigations of biases and heuristics?

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

3. What did Tversky and Kahneman do in the war in 1973?

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

5. Who was the architect of the World Trade Center in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 9, what is one practical change Kahneman suggested to the Israeli army based on the garbage he saw on the side of the road?

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 does Kahneman identify as a central component of the experience of misery?

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

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

8. In Chapter 8, how did Tversky's and Kahneman's work influence Donald Redelmeier?

9. In Chapter 7, what mathematical principle did Kahneman find was responsible for pilots' performance after praise or criticism?

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

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