View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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?
(a) Merrrill Flood.
(b) John von Neumann.
(c) Kurt Godel.
(d) John Nash.

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

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

5. Who was in charge of the Air Force when it provided funding to RAND?
(a) Eisenhower.
(b) Truman.
(c) MacArthur.
(d) LeMay.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the prisoner's dilemma, what do both criminals have to do in order to be set free by the police?

2. Game theory as developed by von Neumann revolutionized a variety of fields not just mathematics, but economics, biology and ___.

3. What is it called when both rational opposing parties choose an equal division in a game?

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

5. In Chapter 3 we are presented with examples of games that use mixed strategies, but this does not include which game below?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 246 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample