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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11 More on Social Dilemmas.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many believed that game theory games modeled seemingly perfect but inhuman and ____ players.
(a) Too perfect.
(b) Unrealistic.
(c) Amoral.
(d) Callous.

2. What war between the Allied and Axis powers was going on when von Neumann was invited to become part of the Manhattan Project?
(a) WWII.
(b) WWI.
(c) The Great War.
(d) The Vietnam War.

3. Whose last work was an attempt to design a human brain based computer.
(a) Kurt Godel.
(b) John von Neumann.
(c) John Nash.
(d) David Hilbert.

4. Who came up with the game model centered around two hunters deciding what to hunt for the day?
(a) Nash.
(b) Russell.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Einstein.

5. As mentioned in Chapter 6, which two colleagues agreed to play the experimental prisoner's dilemmas?
(a) Williams and Alchian.
(b) Godel and Cun.
(c) Alchian and Shubik.
(d) Cun and Williams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Due to his deteriorating health von Neumann was confined to a wheelchair in ___.

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

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

4. Before the game of chicken what game model did many believe nuclear warfare was like?

5. Prussians issued Kriegspiel to every ____.

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