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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The RAND Corporation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what century did Kriegspiel become popular among the Prussians?
(a) 18th.
(b) 17th.
(c) 20th.
(d) 19th.

2. Several famous RAND studies looked at how the public would respond to contact with aliens and life after what?
(a) A nuclear war.
(b) A near death experience.
(c) An alien abduction.
(d) Chemical warfare.

3. Besides Einstein, von Neumann was in the presence of such great thinkers as ____ at the IAS.
(a) Oppenheimer.
(b) Edison.
(c) Graham.
(d) Alois Alzheimer.

4. Despite escalating armaments the Cold War ended without _____.
(a) Human rights violations.
(b) U.N. mediation.
(c) A nuclear exchange.
(d) A bio-weapon exchange.

5. Which game was popular in the IAS lunch rooms?
(a) Tic-tac-toe.
(b) Poker.
(c) Kriegspiel.
(d) Chess.

Short Answer Questions

1. When you make a decision in a game that you think your opponent will make, you are using a minimax or ___ strategy.

2. Besides Bertrand Russell, what mathematician thought a new war between the U.S. and Soviet Union was inevitable once the conflict ended between the Allied and Axis powers?

3. In Chapter 5 it is mentioned that the RAND Corporation became known as what type of place?

4. John von Neumann was from a family of ___ Jews.

5. In prisoner's dilemma a ____ action will be bad for both parties,which is a problem game theory seeks to understand.

(see the answer key)

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