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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. In prisoner's dilemma, if either criminal confesses before the other the police promise to do what?
(a) Drop all charges against that prisoner.
(b) Give both prisoners a lighter sentence.
(c) Give that prisoner a lighter sentence.
(d) Set that prisoner free.

2. In what country did von Neumann earn his PhD in mathematics?
(a) Hungary.
(b) The Middle East.
(c) The United States.
(d) Germany.

3. Besides mathematics, von Neumann, according to details in Chapter 2, was also very knowledgeable in what area?
(a) Biology.
(b) History.
(c) Religion.
(d) English Literature.

4. When a game does not have a saddle point, what strategy must be used?
(a) Equal.
(b) Pure.
(c) Mixed.
(d) Maximum.

5. Besides Russell, who else advocated for preventative war during the Cold War?
(a) Morgenstern.
(b) von Neumann.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Nash.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first name of von Neumann's first wife?

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

3. Who developed the game model now known as a prisoner's dilemma?

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

5. Which one of von Neumann's colleagues, though a left wing pacifist, joined with him in advocating preventative nuclear war against the Soviet Union?

(see the answer key)

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