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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11 More on Social Dilemmas.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did the public see as Machiavellian advocates of nuclear war in connection with the wane in game theory interest?
(a) Russell and von Neumann.
(b) Matthews and von Neumann.
(c) RAND and von Neumann.
(d) Oppenheimer and Hilbert.

2. Who developed SAGE?
(a) Hilbert.
(b) Godel.
(c) Nash.
(d) von Neumann.

3. John Nash, a brilliant unbalanced mathematician, was von Neumann's old colleague who reconnected with him where?
(a) At the Manhattan Project.
(b) At Princeton.
(c) At RAND.
(d) At IBM.

4. In which game is defection the best strategy for either player?
(a) Divide the Cake.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Stag Hunt.
(d) Prisoner's Dilemma.

5. Where was the disastrous Secretary of the Navy's speech about neutralizing the Soviet threat made?
(a) Nebraska.
(b) Arizona.
(c) California.
(d) Illinois.

Short Answer Questions

1. Due to his deteriorating health von Neumann was confined to a wheelchair in ___.

2. RAND developed a nuclear fail safe strategy that held that a good second strike capability deterred a first strike by ensuring that the U.S. had plenty of what available?

3. In the game model prisoner's dilemma who developed the equilibrium solution that undermined rationality in general?

4. What war between the Allied and Axis powers was going on when von Neumann was invited to become part of the Manhattan Project?

5. In Chapter 5 it is mentioned that the RAND Corporation became known as what type of place?

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