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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In game theory, what describes the situation when a player has available the same information to determine all of the possible games as would be available at the end of the game?
(a) Perfect information.
(b) Psychic information.
(c) Complete data.
(d) Incontrovertable evidence.

2. RAND Corporation first formed to offer research and analysis to the United States armed forces by what American aerospace manufacturer?
(a) Cesna.
(b) Douglas Aircraft Company.
(c) Boeing.
(d) RCA.

3. During his first semester at Princeton, Nash would arrange his morning walk so he could see whom taking his morning walk?
(a) Norman Steenrod.
(b) Lloyd Shapley.
(c) John Milnor.
(d) Albert Einstein.

4. Nash invented a game of strategy at Princeton and what fellow student made the board for the game?
(a) David Gale.
(b) Lloyd Shapley.
(c) Oskar Morgenstern.
(d) Warren Ambrose.

5. When was Lloyd Shapley born?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1914.

Short Answer Questions

1. John Forbes Nash, Jr. won a Westinghouse Scholarship to study where in Chapter One?

2. In May 1948, Project RAND became an independent non-profit organization with initial capital from where?

3. How many pages was John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s thesis in Chapter Ten?

4. What refers to a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II?

5. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant invented by whom in 1899?

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