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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 - 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Based on the law of least effort, the author concludes that what characteristic is built deep into our nature?
(a) Laziness.
(b) Bitterness.
(c) Heroism.
(d) Gratitude.

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

3. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the state of being out of keeping with the norm or inconsistent?
(a) Articluation.
(b) Depletion.
(c) Recognition.
(d) Incongruity.

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

5. The author conludes in Chapter 10 that humans pay more attention to the content of messages than to what?
(a) Information about their reliability.
(b) Their causality.
(c) The statistics behind them.
(d) Information about their connection with self.

Short Answer Questions

1. What neighborhood within Niagara Falls, New York was the location of a 70-acre landfill that was the epicenter of a massive environmental disaster?

2. What illusion is posed by the author in Chapter 6 when he asks about how many animals were brought upon the ark?

3. The author compares the conscious mind with what in Chapter 5?

4. In the statistics presented by the author in the opening of Chapter 10, he states that instances of what disease are less prevalent in rural, sparsely populated counties largely in the Midwest, South, and the West?

5. When did Kahneman publish Attention and Effort?

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