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

2. Prussian ___ were required to play Kriegspiel.
(a) Officers.
(b) Pilots.
(c) Infantry.
(d) Snipers.

3. What does IAS stand for?
(a) Institute in Advanced Studies.
(b) Institute for Advanced Studies.
(c) Institute of Armament Strategies.
(d) Institute for Armament Strategies.

4. The minimax theorem states that every two-person game that is completely defined and where players are completely opposed, will have a solution in either ____ or mixed strategy.
(a) Maximum.
(b) Pure.
(c) Equal.
(d) Minimum.

5. In the 1950s and 1960s many viewed international conflict, and specifically ____ as a kind of prisoner's dilemma.
(a) Human rights conflicts.
(b) Political conflicts.
(c) Militia led conflicts.
(d) Nuclear conflict.

Short Answer Questions

1. Later in variations of the Ohio State study, what strategy dominated play?

2. What is the name of von Neumann's daughter from his first wife?

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

4. How old was von Neumann when he was invited to teach a course at Princeton?

5. Who originally suggested the RAND Corporation as a research and development institute?

(see the answer key)

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