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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. In Chapter 6 one of von Neumann's RAND colleagues in the 1950s was mentioned as whom?
(a) Kurt Godel.
(b) David Hilbert.
(c) Merrill Flood.
(d) John Nash.

2. Game theory, according to details in Chapter 3, is a ____ of conflict.
(a) Trapdoor.
(b) Escalation.
(c) Model.
(d) Solution.

3. How many prisoner's dilemmas were played in the game's experiment, according to details in Chapter 6?
(a) 200.
(b) 100.
(c) 50.
(d) 14.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides Einstein, von Neumann was in the presence of such great thinkers as ____ at the IAS.

2. Kriegspiel was developed as a game to be used where?

3. In the divide the cake game the chooser seeks to minimize the ___ piece of cake the cutter will receive.

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

5. David Hilbert was a great ____.

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