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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. How old was von Neumann when he was invited to teach a course at Princeton?
(a) 20.
(b) 26.
(c) 32.
(d) 25.

2. Who was von Neumann's partner in the original development of game theory?
(a) Nash.
(b) Flood.
(c) Godel.
(d) Morgenstern.

3. What country did some feel stood in the way of a world government and should be bombed?
(a) North Korea.
(b) The Soviet Union.
(c) Japan.
(d) China.

4. Which one of von Neumann's colleagues' family had been a member of the House of Lords?
(a) Nash.
(b) Flood.
(c) Alchian.
(d) Russell.

5. In Chapter 1 if neither loved one pushes their button by the time limit what happens?
(a) Both are beaten.
(b) One dies.
(c) Both die.
(d) Both are set free.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had John Stuart Mill briefly as a tutor?

2. In the 1950s and 1960s many viewed international conflict, and specifically ____ as a kind of prisoner's dilemma.

3. In what year was von Neumann invited to join the Manhattan Project?

4. In Chapter 1, as time runs out for the loved ones, each in a separate room what will each be tempted to do?

5. The Manhattan Project was a secret U.S. government program to build what?

(see the answer key)

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