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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18 - 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kriegspiel is German for what?
(a) Automobile.
(b) Sausage.
(c) War game.
(d) Barking dog.

2. RAND was set up in what year as Project RAND?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1946.

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

4. In Chapter Fifteen, Nash began to study the area of what?
(a) Game theory.
(b) Manifolds.
(c) The continuum hypothesis.
(d) Riemann's Hypothesis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Lloyd Shapley from?

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

3. Where did John Forbes Nash, Sr. work during the Depression?

4. Who did the Republic of Korea fight in the Korean War?

5. How many faculty members from MIT belonged to a Communist Party cell and were called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, as described in Chapter Nineteen?

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