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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 Prisoners Dilemma.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bertrand Russell is a ___.
(a) Physicist.
(b) Philosopher.
(c) Economist.
(d) Mathematician.

2. Confessing before one's partner in prisoner's dilemma seems what?
(a) Selfish.
(b) Irrational.
(c) Simple.
(d) Rational.

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

4. How many prisoner's dilemmas were played in the game's experiment, according to details in Chapter 6?
(a) 100.
(b) 200.
(c) 50.
(d) 14.

5. Where were the Manhattan Project operations located?
(a) Arizona.
(b) D.C.
(c) New York.
(d) New Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tic-tac-toe, like the game of ____ , has a finite number of ways it can be played, which can be calculated by a computer.

2. Game theory involves competitive games between perfectly ____ and opposed players.

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

4. What was the bomb called that von Neumann developed which became the basis for later nuclear device development?

5. When the equilibrium solution is used in the prisoner's dilemma game model it leads to mutual ____.

(see the answer key)

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