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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25 - 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to bond prices on the day of Saddam Hussein's capture in Iraq?
(a) They stayed the same.
(b) They initially dropped.
(c) The drastically dropped.
(d) They initially rose.

2. Who created the Remote Association Test to study creativity?
(a) Daniel Gilbert.
(b) Shane Frederick.
(c) Samoff Mednick.
(d) Danny Oppenheimer.

3. How many of the participants in Nisbett's experiment at the Univerity of Michigan never got out of their booth when the stooge pleaded for help?
(a) 2.
(b) 13.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

4. What illusion does the author demonstrate by presenting lines that appear to be different sizes but are in fact the same?
(a) The Anchoring illusion.
(b) The Muller-Lyer illusion.
(c) The illusion of Narrative Fallacy.
(d) The Executive Control illusion.

5. The author states that people's predilection for causal thinking exposes them to serious mistakes in evaluating what?
(a) The different values of statistics.
(b) The merits of analytical analysis.
(c) The causality of events.
(d) The randomness of truly random events.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was John von Neumann originally from?

2. In the example where the author presents two candidates for a college professorship, which choice is favored by intuition?

3. What dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business was a firm believer in standard economic theory?

4. What statistician illustrated the ease with which people see patterns where none exist?

5. Who is the author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street?

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