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Introduction, Chapters 1 - 4

1. Who is the author of The Black Swan?
(a) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(b) Nassim Taleb.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Keith Stanovich.

2. What image is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate in the reader thinking in automatic mode?
(a) A smiling woman.
(b) A beach.
(c) An angry woman.
(d) A smiling man.

3. What example is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate slow thinking?
(a) A multiplication problem.
(b) A picture of an angry woman.
(c) A compound sentence.
(d) A picture of a stream.

4. Who introduced the labels System 1 and System 2 as systems of the mind?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Nassim Taleb.
(c) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(d) Keith Stanovich and Richard West.

5. Who is declared by the author as the hero of the book in Chapter 1?
(a) System 2.
(b) The conscience.
(c) System 1.
(d) The ego.

6. The operations of System 2 have one feature in common. What is this feature?
(a) They are heuristic.
(b) They require attention.
(c) They are fast.
(d) They are automatic.

7. Who wrote The Invisible Gorilla?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.
(c) Nassim Taleb.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

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