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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-9.

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) Incontrovertable evidence.
(b) Psychic information.
(c) Complete data.
(d) Perfect information.

2. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant invented by whom in 1899?
(a) Georg von Rassewitz.
(b) Lloyd Shapley.
(c) Henry Michael Temple.
(d) Albert Einstein.

3. How old was John Forbes Nash, Jr. when he arrived at Princeton in Chapter Three?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Thirty.

4. When did John von Neumann die?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1941.

5. The one requirement at Princeton in the mathematics department when Nash attended in Chapter Four was that the students attend what daily?
(a) A faculty tea.
(b) McAnderson's lecture.
(c) Church services.
(d) Student meetings.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When was John von Neumann born?

3. When was the original "Kriegsspiel" game developed?

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

5. Who was the chairman of the mathematics department at Princeton when Nash began attending in Chapter Four?

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