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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. 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.

2. 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) Oppenheimer and Hilbert.
(c) Russell and von Neumann.
(d) RAND and von Neumann.

3. RAND operations were located where?
(a) Illinois.
(b) California.
(c) D.C.
(d) Virginia.

4. David Hilbert was a great ____.
(a) Physicist.
(b) Mathematician.
(c) Economist.
(d) Philosophy thinker.

5. In the original Ohio State studies to what strategy did the red button correspond?
(a) Tit-for-tat.
(b) Minimax.
(c) Defection.
(d) Cooperation.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Ohio State subjects were allowed to meet and discuss strategy in the original studies, what strategy dominated play?

2. Who was von Neumann's partner in the original development of game theory?

3. In what century did Kriegspiel become popular among the Prussians?

4. Over the years variations on the Ohio study have included variables in gender, race and ____.

5. According to Chapter 3, von Neumann concerned himself with what type of games, where in order for one person to gain, another person must lose?

(see the answer key)

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