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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30 - 34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the director of the CIA when intelligence learned that al-Qaeda may be planning a major attack on the U.S.?
(a) Christopher Chabris.
(b) Baruch Fischhoff.
(c) Malcolm Gladwell.
(d) George Tenet.

2. What well-known expert in marital relations estimated that a stable relationship requires good interactions outnumber bad interactions by at least 5 to 1?
(a) John Gottman.
(b) Bruno Frey.
(c) Richard Thaler.
(d) Gary Klein.

3. What label is given to the documented research showing a massive preference for selling winners rather than losers?
(a) Narrative fallacy.
(b) Endowment effect.
(c) Disposition effect.
(d) Loss aversion.

4. In the following example from Chapter 30, the author posits the following in regards to a person choosing a marble from an urn. The red marbles win a prize. "Urn A contains 10 marbles, of which 1 is red. Urn B contains 100 marbles, of which 8 are red" (631). What are the chances of winning in Urn B?
(a) 8%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 16%.
(d) 10%.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization paid for Thaler to spend a year working with Kahneman in Vancouver?

2. What term introduced by Nassim Taleb describes how flawed stories of the past shape our views of the present and the future?

3. In the presentation of the "character" of Tom W. in Chapter 14, what is the subject of the experiment asked to rate?

4. Who used a method to test intentional causality by making a film in 1944 that involved a circle and two triangles?

5. Based on the law of least effort, the author concludes that what characteristic is built deep into our nature?

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