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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 Game Theory and its Discontents.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Later in variations of the Ohio State study, what strategy dominated play?
(a) Cooperation.
(b) Tit-for-tat.
(c) Defection.
(d) Minimax.

2. In the prisoner's dilemmas experiments, how many times was the equilibrium solution played, according to Chapter 6?
(a) 14.
(b) 13.
(c) 26.
(d) 17.

3. Many began to see the presumptions of game theory as callous and ___.
(a) Unrealistic.
(b) Irrational.
(c) Inhumane.
(d) Unthinkable.

4. Who was in charge of the Air Force when it provided funding to RAND?
(a) MacArthur.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) LeMay.
(d) Truman.

5. John von Neumann developed game theory partly as an alternative foundation to what?
(a) Economics.
(b) Human behavior.
(c) Physics.
(d) Probability.

Short Answer Questions

1. As a child prodigy, besides learning mathematics and other subjects, von Neumann also learned what language?

2. Who conducted an experiment to see how real people would respond in the prisoner's dilemma game model?

3. Shortly after earning his PhD in mathematics, von Neumann moved to what country for a teaching position?

4. At the end of summer at RAND one of the employees would watch what people would ____ when they left.

5. As mentioned in Chapter 6, which two colleagues agreed to play the experimental prisoner's dilemmas?

(see the answer key)

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