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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 Game Theory and its Discontents.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 3, von Neumann concerned himself with what type of games, where in order for one person to gain, another person must lose?
(a) Non-zero sum games.
(b) Zero-sum games.
(c) N-person games.
(d) Non-cooperative games.

2. What does IAS stand for?
(a) Institute for Advanced Studies.
(b) Institute for Armament Strategies.
(c) Institute in Advanced Studies.
(d) Institute of Armament Strategies.

3. Who developed the game model now known as a prisoner's dilemma?
(a) Shubik.
(b) Flood.
(c) Godel.
(d) Axelrod.

4. Who developed a mathematical way to extend von Neumann's game theory beyond the original game theory insights?
(a) John Nash.
(b) Kurt Godel.
(c) Merrill Flood.
(d) David Hilbert.

5. Who played Kriegspiel as a boy?
(a) John Nash.
(b) John von Neumann.
(c) Robert Axelrod.
(d) Merrill Flood.

Short Answer Questions

1. John von Neumann was from a family of ___ Jews.

2. Over the years variations on the Ohio study have included variables in gender, race and ____.

3. Besides Einstein, von Neumann was in the presence of such great thinkers as ____ at the IAS.

4. Many began to see the presumptions of game theory as callous and ___.

5. In the original Ohio State studies to what strategy did the black button correspond?

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