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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Morey think he wrongly passed on drafting Jeremy Lin?

3. The belief in which of the following was the subject of Tversky's and Kahneman's early works?

4. Which book did Lewis publish in 2003?

5. What does Lewis say that Kahneman's volatility was for Danny?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why did Morey ban the giving out of nicknames at the Houston Rockets?

8. In Chapter 4, how did Barbara Tversky adjust to life in Israel?

9. In 2007, what was the problem with the talented basketball player Sean Williams?

10. What is the common theme of the stories Lewis collects from Tversky's friends' and colleagues' recollections about him in Chapter 3?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kahneman and Tversky both often told interviewers and others that they found it impossible to separate and distinguish which of the ideas in their collaborative works originated with whom. What change in their working circumstances and relationship led to a clearer distinction about whose ideas were whose? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your arguments.

Essay Topic 2

What did Kahneman's and Tversky's work reveal about the role of stereotypes in judgement and decision-making? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 7, why is Kahneman's and Tversky's work on uncertainty so upsetting to some historians who came to hear Tversky's lectures? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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