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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 Prisoners Dilemma.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Prussian ___ were required to play Kriegspiel.
(a) Officers.
(b) Snipers.
(c) Infantry.
(d) Pilots.

2. Who helped develop a strategy of how to use the bomb to end the war in Japan?
(a) Robert Axelrod.
(b) Merrill Flood.
(c) John von Neumann.
(d) John Nash.

3. 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-cooperative games.
(b) Zero-sum games.
(c) Non-zero sum games.
(d) N-person games.

4. What was the first name of von Neumann's first wife?
(a) Mariette.
(b) Marilyn.
(c) Margaret.
(d) Marianne.

5. When did the RAND Corporation become home to many distinguished scientists?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1960s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had John Stuart Mill briefly as a tutor?

2. What was the first name of von Neumann's second wife?

3. In what year was von Neumann invited to join the Manhattan Project?

4. John von Neumann developed game theory partly as an alternative foundation to what?

5. John Nash, a brilliant unbalanced mathematician, was von Neumann's old colleague who reconnected with him where?

(see the answer key)

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