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

2. Kriegspiel was developed as a game to be used where?
(a) Military torture.
(b) Military academies.
(c) Military prisons.
(d) Military hospitals.

3. Who developed a mathematical way to extend von Neumann's game theory beyond the original game theory insights?
(a) Kurt Godel.
(b) John Nash.
(c) Merrill Flood.
(d) David Hilbert.

4. Which one of von Neumann's colleagues, though a left wing pacifist, joined with him in advocating preventative nuclear war against the Soviet Union?
(a) Nash.
(b) Oppenheimer.
(c) Russell.
(d) Einstein.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 3, von Neumann concerned himself with what type of games, where in order for one person to gain, another person must lose?

2. John von Neumann's original game theory was extended to find an equilibrium solution to what kind of games?

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

4. In Chapter 1 if neither loved one pushes their button by the time limit what happens?

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

(see the answer key)

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